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> Is there a way to tell git-svn fetch to get an index in multiple
> chunks of a particular chunk-size or to retain the partial index if
> the server hangs up?
>
> Spec info:
> Win7 with Cygwin 1.7.9-1
> git & git-svn 1.7.4-1
>

If you are willing to leave out the big zip file from your repository,
you could try the following:

Make two clones, one before the over-sized commit, and one for
afterwards.  Say the big commit was committed in revision 36, it would
be something like:

git svn clone -r1:35 url first-clone
git svn clone -r36:HEAD url second-clone

Now fetch the second repo into the first repo, and tie the history
together using _grafts_. I've made a screencast with an example of
grafting like this here:

http://blog.tfnico.com/2010/10/gitsvn-6-grafting-together-svn-history.html

(I'll cross-post this answer to StackOverflow as well).