git svn clone of a single directory of SVN repository
git, git-svn, svn, version-control
Solution
You don't want the standard layout, you want something like this:
git svn clone svn+ssh://path/to/repo/ --trunk=trunk/directory --branches=branches/*/directory --tags=tags/*/directory
Problem
I am attempting to use `git svn` to clone a single directory of a SVN repository into a Git repository. If I use `git svn clone svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory`, I get a Git repo without branches that mirror the branches in the source SVN repo. If I use `git svn --stdlayout svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory`, I get an empty Git repo. The following is the output of the command: ``` Initialized empty Git repository in /directory/.git/ Using higher level of URL: svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory => svn+ssh://path/to/repo W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 100, path '/trunk/directory' W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history. This may take a while on large repositories ``` I had read that the way to fix the above was to add a revision range like `-r 1000:HEAD`, this still produces an empty repo. The output is: ``` Initialized empty Git repository in /directory/.git/ Using higher level of URL: svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory => svn+ssh://path/to/repo ``` Any ideas on how to clone a subdirectory of an SVN repository using git-svn that still grabs all of the branches & tags from the source SVN respository?