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I started working on a project 2 years ago and I chose SVN as the revision control system. Then in last year I decided to switch from SVN to GIT via git svn clone. From then on, I never commit to old SVN repo again. I'm the only one using the repo so there is no branchs in both SVN and GIT.

Now I want to remove the git-svn tag here: (I'm not sure if it is a tag.) git log

All the commits and logs in old SVN repo must be retained.

What should I do? I'm using TortoiseGit and knows just a little about git commands.

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Found a solution: just delete refs/remotes/git-svn in the context menu.

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And then remove the folder .git/svn.

All histroy will be maintained.

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This is because git-svn is just a remote reference (branch), not a commit. I would recommend you to use a better graph visualization tool as this representation is rather misleading.
I thought the commits and logs before git-svn still existed in old svn repo instead of new git repo by git svn clone, and after removing the git-svn all these commits and logs would be lost. But actually it is not the case.
... true! Because with git you are always working only on your local copy of the repository. Nothing is changed in the outer world unless you push. Welcome to git :-)
this may come in useful to someone...I kept seeing the SVN DCommit options in the context menus of Tortoise Git, even after deleting the ref/remotes/git-svn mainly the show log dialog. I found a SVN folder in the hidden .git folder. After deleting the SVN folder the SVN DCommit options were gone from context menu. Which is what I was after.
@MattFricker "And then remove the folder .git/svn."

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