Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git

["Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to import an svn repository, along with its tags,
into git, and everything seems okay except that after the import I
expect to have the following structure to my checked out repository:

    [root-dir]
        .git
        <checked-out-files>

But instead I end up with

    [root-dir]
        .git
        man-pages               <-- name of my svn project
            <checked-out-files>

I've tried out a few different command-line flag settings but so far I
haven't managed to get the desired layout.  I guess that I'm missing
something trivial, but I haven't worked out what it is so far.

The commands I'm using to do the import are:

$ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T trunk -b branches
$ git svn fetch

The svn tags are getting imported okay, since:

git branch -a | head
  tags/man-pages-2.00
  tags/man-pages-2.01
  ...
  tags/man-pages-3.08
  tags/man-pages-3.09
  trunk

The following commands show the layout of my svn repo, which is pretty
much standard:

$ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep
branches/
tags/
trunk/
$ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/trunk
man-pages/
$ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/trunk/man-pages
Changes
Changes.old
Makefile
README
man-pages-3.09.Announce
...
man7/
man8/
scripts/
$ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/tags
man-pages-2.00/
man-pages-2.01/
...
man-pages-3.08/
man-pages-3.09/

What 'git svn init' command do I need to get the layout that I want
for my imported git repo?

Cheers,

Michael