Is this expected?
$ sort /tmp/git-svn-output | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/web/papers/index.html
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/web/papers/01-icfp.ps.gz
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/web/papers/00-esop.ps.gz
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/save-world/save-world.sml
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/save-world/Makefile
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/profiling/profiling.sml
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/profiling/Makefile
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/ffi/Makefile
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/ffi/main.sml
4 A mlton/trunk/doc/examples/ffi/ffi.h
$ It's somewhat counter-intuitive, at least. This is with Debian's