How to get the latest SVN HEAD in git-svn?

Question

I'm using git-svn and I'd like to update to the latest SVN HEAD.

When I type git pull it says:

fatal: No remote repository specified.  Please, specify either a URL or a
remote name from which new revisions should be fetched.

I read here that I should do something like:

git checkout -b real-trunk remotes/trunk

But I don't understand the command. What's remote-trunk? In any case, git gives an error:

fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'remotes/trunk' which can not be resolved as commit?

Here is my .git/config:

$ cat .git/config 
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = http://name.xyz.com/svn/trunk/project
        fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn

Also, can anyone tell me how to revert all changes that I made in my git checkout? I want to be back at the fresh SVN HEAD version.

Answer 1

For updating instead of "git pull":

git svn rebase

I guess you already have refs/heads/master corresponding your refs/remotes/git-svn, so work with it, you need no "real-trunk".

"git checkout" doesn't perform any changes, it just changes your current branch. You may change your current branch back but using "git checkout your_previous_commit_or_branch".

"git checkout -b branchname" creates a new branch. To delete a branch use " git branch -D branchname".