title: Git: missing subdirectories after clone
body: <p>We are in the process of switching to git for our Version Control system.
  I used 'git svn' to clone my current svn repository "bigproject" to a git repository - I also setup a cron to sync svn commits to this git repo.</p>
  
  <p>"bigproject" has no defined externals or svn:ignore properties
  "bigproject" has many directories and sub-directories (upto 7 levels deep) like so.</p>
  
  <pre><code>src/apps/fld1/fld2/fld3/fld4/fld5    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I inspect the migrated git repo, it seems to have all the folders as expected.</p>
  
  <p>Before actual migration, I setup a staging server and pushed this "bigproject" repo there, and I was trying to switch my build scripts to use git instead of svn.</p>
  
  <p>This is how I hosted the repo on my "git staging" server:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git clone --bare bigproject/ bigproject.git
  cp -R bigproject.git /opt/git/
  cd /opt/git/bigproject.git
  git init --bare --shared
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On the build server, after I do a git clone and inspect, I found that some of the subdirectories were missing - esp after 3 levels deep</p>
  
  <pre><code>git@mygitserver:bigproject.git
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>after the clone I only have</p>
  
  <pre><code>src/apps/fld1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to re-export the bare repo many times to eliminate any human errors but I can't seem to figure out.</p>
  
  <p>Have any of you seen this before?</p>