title: git svn clone of a single directory of SVN repository
body: <p>I am attempting to use <code>git svn</code> to clone a single directory of a SVN repository into a Git repository.</p>
  
  <p>If I use <code>git svn clone svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory</code>, I get a Git repo without branches that mirror the branches in the source SVN repo.</p>
  
  <p>If I use <code>git svn --stdlayout svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory</code>, I get an empty Git repo. The following is the output of the command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Initialized empty Git repository in /directory/.git/
  Using higher level of URL: svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory =&gt; 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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I had read that the way to fix the above was to add a revision range like <code>-r 1000:HEAD</code>, this still produces an empty repo. The output is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Initialized empty Git repository in /directory/.git/
  Using higher level of URL: svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory =&gt; svn+ssh://path/to/repo
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to clone a subdirectory of an SVN repository using git-svn that still grabs all of the branches &amp; tags from the source SVN respository?</p>