From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2009-01-19T21:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: cloning ruby's svn repo

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:50, john maclean <jayeola@gmail.com> wrote:
> from http://blog.emptyway.com/2008/06/19/full-git-clone-of-matz-ruby-subversion-repository/
>
> git svn clone --stdlayout http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby
>
> This takes a long time and collects 300Mb+ of data. Say I just wanted
> 1.9 or from 1.8.4 to 1.9, how's that done?

Maybe you can just synchronize (however it's called in git-speak) with
vladimir's git repo, he (or his scripts) will do the conversion for
you.
Then IIRC, you can specify starting revision in the command.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html look for
--revision. Now the only thing left is to figure out the starting
revision for 1.8.4.

I don't known whether is it possible to strip some branches as well.