title: git svn clone --password pass gives “Unknown option: password”
body: <p>I want to clone a svn repository using git, with a username and password given on the command-line.</p>
  
  <p>I can write:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn checkout --username user --password pass svn://server/repo
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I can't use <code>--password</code> with <code>git svn clone</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git svn clone --username user --password pass svn://server/repo
  Unknown option: password
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>How can I give the password to <code>git svn clone</code> on the command-line?</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Alternatively, is there a kind of <code>--svn-options</code> switch to git-svn?</strong></p>
  
  <p>P.-S. Note that I need to specify it on the command-line, because there are multiple repos on this server with different user/pass, and svn stupidly assumes that all repos use the same username/password, so half of the time I get <code>svn: Authorization failed</code>, without it asking for the password, even if I use <code>--username</code> (it seems to ask for the password sometimes, but it's not robust enough to be used in a script).</p>