From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:49:01 GMT
Subject: git-svn: cloning from svn.apache.org
Message-ID: <8763k364pu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

What can be done to speed up cloning from svn.apache.org?  It's a
Subversion repository with over 700,000 revisions.  Many projects
stored there started their life in some of the later revisions, and
the forward-scanning part of git-svn takes ages.

I wonder if it were faster to search history backwards, starting with
the specified path, similar to what "svn log" does?