From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:39:09 GMT Subject: Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010) Message-ID: <20110203173835.GC30341@elie> In-Reply-To: Geert Bosch wrote: > These narrow clones are especially important for imports of unwieldy > svn repositories where there is a large amount of unstructured > branching. Wouldn't a more careful import be a better solution to that problem? Practically speaking, I'd rather work with an enormous svn repo like that by using git-svn to extract subsets than with a botched import that treats it as one huge (git-managed) project. svn-all-fast-import, for example, has a fairly simple configuration syntax allowing to extract whatever subrepositories are needed.