Basically the same as the asterisk HOWTO. Changes: Initial clone is: git svn clone -s http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri The .gitignore file is: cp ../asterisk-tools/libpri_gitignore .gitignore Libpri has no 'trunk' . So the master branch should follow 1.4: git branch -D master git branch --track -b master 1.4