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From: "Jacob Helwig" <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Start git svn clone at specific revision for cloning subprojects in large svn repositories?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:07:47 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:00, Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would like to git svn clone subprojects from a large community
> subversion repository (plone collective).
>
> The repository is currently at 74K commits, but subprojects of interest
> are typically much more recent, and their initial import revision is known.
>
> I would like to avoid a) unnecessary traffic to the svn server and b)
> the very long delay in git svn cloning these subprojects.
>
> Is there a way to specfiy a starting revision to git svn clone?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Try git svn init, then git svn fetch --revision <revision#>:HEAD.
This is what I use for some of our larger projects at work.