title: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch
body: <p>I have a big repository, 100,000+ revisions with a very high branching factor.  The initial fetch of the full SVN repository using git-svn has been running for around 2 months and it's only up to revision 60,000.  Is there any way to speed this thing up?</p>
  
  <p>I'm already regularly killing and restarting the fetch due to git-svn leaking memory like a sieve.  The transfer is occurring over the local LAN, so link speed shouldn't be an issue.  The repository is on a dedicated machine backed by dedicated fiber channel arrays so the server should have plenty of oomph.  The only other thing that I can think of is do the clone from a local copy of the SVN repository.  </p>
  
  <p>What have other people done in similar circumstances?</p>