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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)
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Geert Bosch wrote:

> These narrow clones are especially important for imports of unwieldy
> svn repositories where there is a large amount of unstructured
> branching.

Wouldn't a more careful import be a better solution to that problem?
Practically speaking, I'd rather work with an enormous svn repo like
that by using git-svn to extract subsets than with a botched import
that treats it as one huge (git-managed) project.

svn-all-fast-import, for example, has a fairly simple configuration
syntax allowing to extract whatever subrepositories are needed.