If you follow my slides: you will have trouble committing. I was able to commit to the svn repo using the following command: git svn dcommit --commit-url svn+ssh://$FEDORAUSER@svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/pki/trunk Where $FEDORAUSER for me is admiyo I think that the right approach is to do the original clone using the svn+ssh URL: git svn clone ssh://$FEDORAUSER@svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/pki --prefix svn/ --stdlayout I am doing a clone right now, and I will test with my next commit.