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I am unable to use git-svn to create a branch on an svn server, using the git svn branch <branchname> command on windows using either git-bash, cygwin or git extensions.

I would like some guidance/suggestions on how to diagnose and debug this issue.

The output on git-bash and cygwin:

$ git svn branch upstream-branch-name
Copying https://***redacted*** at r132578 to https://***redacted***/branches/upstream-branch-name...
Can't create session: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://***redacted***': No more credentials or we tried too many times.
Authentication failed at C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-svn line 1199.

For information, I have cygwin, and TortoiseSVN installed as svn providers on my system.

EDIT1: Additionally, I am able to do git svn rebase and git svn dcommit without any error

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  • Could you commit directly svn? preferably command line. You could try define your svn username to git-svn explicitly via --username
    – Mykola Gurov
    Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 20:19
  • Yes, I am able to commit directly to svn, I have been using that as a temporary workaround
    – imsometa
    Commented Dec 14, 2016 at 10:14

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Check first your Git version in your Cygwin environment.
I mentioned here a Git 2.13+ (March 2017) should be more robust when it comes to authentication issue.

For testing, try (as mentioned here) to uninstall TortoiseSVN and see if the git svn branch does work then.

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