title: git-svn clone | spurious branches
body: <p>I used the following command to clone svn repo into git and after executing it, i see some spurious branches.</p>
  
  <p><code>git svn clone [SVN repo URL] --no-metadata -A authors-transform.txt --stdlayout ~/temp</code></p>
  
  <p><code>git branch -a</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>*(no branch)
    master
    remotes/abc-1.3.x
    remotes/abc-1.3.x@113346
    remotes/abc-1.3.x@541512
    remotes/branch_test_script
    remotes/tags/modules-1.2
    remotes/tags/modules-1.2@113346
    remotes/tags/modules-1.2@516265
    remotes/tags/release-1.1
    remotes/tags/release-1.1@113346
    remotes/tags/release-1.1@468862
    remotes/trunk
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Actual branches created in svn were abc, branch_test_script, modules and release.
  Can someone help in understanding what 'abc-1.3.x@113346' , 'abc-1.3.x@541512' ... 'release-1.1@468862' etc are ?</p>
  
  <p>How can we get rid of these spurious branches / what do they signify ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,<br>
  Gayathri</p>