Background
I am working with a huge SVN repository (full clone is ~20Gb), it has the following top-level strucuture:
stuff
stuff/branches
stuff/tags
stuff/trunk
stuff/archive
stuff/build
stuff/machines
stuff/releases
First point: I have no clue what stuff is contained in the [archive, machines, build & releases] directories and to be honest - I don't really care - I just know I don't need them stored locally to do development work.
Second point: Other than the silly directories for storing artifacts, on the surface this seems like a standard SVN layout. However, when you dig deeper, it's bizzare as the trunk directory contains multiple projects, for example:
stuff/trunk/mars
stuff/trunk/earth
stuff/trunk/venus
stuff/trunk/saturn
stuff/trunk/pluto
...
And the branches folder has been organised as described:
stuff/branches/<project>-<name of project branch>
Where each branch has been branched from one of the projects in:
stuff/trunk/<project>
What am I trying to achieve?
I only want to clone stuff from the pluto project (~20Mb). For example when doing this in SVN, I would issue the following command:
svn checkout https://svn.example.com/svn/stuff/trunk/pluto
...
Checked out revision 3505
My issue is that I am unable to replicate this using git-svn. I've tried numerous times with different options to "git svn clone" and every time I end up cloning the entire repo (~20Gb) or nothing. Surely it shouldn't be this difficult so I must be doing something wrong.
If I'm able to git-svn clone just the pluto project, when I create a new branch with git-svn I also want it to create me an SVN branch, for example, I want the following commands to be equivalent:
svn copy https://svn.example.com/svn/stuff/trunk/pluto \
https://svn.example.com/svn/stuff/branches/pluto-1234 \
-m "Making branch pluto-1234 from /stuff/trunk/pluto"
git svn branch -m \
"Making branch pluto-1234 from /stuff/trunk/pluto" \
pluto-1234
So that a new SVN branch is created at the following location:
stuff/branches/pluto-1234
