Possible bug: git-svn leaves broken tree in case of error

Hello, Everyone.

I noticed this bug several times. Consider the following conditions are
met:
- We're syncing from svn using git-svn :)
- We have authors file provided
- We have a changeset with author unlisted in the authors file.

git-svn dies due to the following code:
sub check_author {
        my ($author) = @_;
        if (!defined $author || length $author == 0) {
                $author = '(no author)';
        }
        if (defined $::_authors && ! defined $::users{$author}) {
                die "Author: $author not defined in $::_authors file\n";
        }
        $author;
}

Unfortunately it leaves repository in some middle state: git-svn itself thinks, that it synced with everything, but git itself doesn't "see" any changesets anymore. I found no way to repair tree after such situation, so I had to repull from scratch.

I found myself, that this should be warning (and fix in this case is trivial), not error (maybe some commandline switch to control behaviour, etc). It can be even error, but breaking tree is definitely bug in this case.

Any thoughts?