When cloning a SVN repo with git-svn it searches laboriously through every revision for changes that are relevant (at least as I understand it). Is there anyway to make this process quicker?
I found this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/747075/how-to-git-svn-clone-the-last-n-revisions-from-a-subversion-repository that suggests it is possible to limit the number of revisions, just need to figure out how far back to go and how to find that number
Yep, you can pass the initial revision from which to start scanning:
You can hunt down that revision by using this command:
The last line shows the earliest revision.
Source:
http://teleogistic.net/2011/05/revisiting-git-github-and-the-wordpress-org-plugin-repository/