Easiest way to change from SVN working copy into Git working tree

Question

We have 6 sites (one prod, 5 dev) and although they are used for different purposes, they are for the most part the same site, they all use code from the same URL in an SVN repository.

I have imported the SVN repository for the project, including the log, for the project into Git, following the advice here, using a git svn clone command that looks something like this:

git svn clone http://my-project.googlecode.com/svn/ \
      --authors-file=users.txt --no-metadata --prefix "" -s my_project

Now I would like to make those SVN working copies into Git working trees. Meaning, I would like to be able to do Git pushes on the files to the new repository location in Git, but I would rather not move the files for the entire site. Also, there are some local changes in the development sites that I want to keep. I have not seen any good answers that tell how to do this.

For each site, I could do a git clone, copy the svn working copy over the git clone, then move the site code somewhere, and move the git clone with copied site code to where the code for the site was. This seems problematic. Is there any easier way?

Just noticed that the most upvoted answer (not the accepted one) here works. I left off the last command, as it overwrites local changes.

git init     
git remote add origin PATH/TO/REPO     
git fetch 

Answer 1

The .git directory contains a complete Git repository. Clone the repository, and copy its .git directory into each working tree.

You can save a little time and space by doing a bare clone, git clone --bare. This is the contents of the .git directory with no working tree. You can clone that straight into a .git directory in each working tree.

cd working_tree
git clone --bare <url> .git/