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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: http://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

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If you are cloning , no, but why would you keep cloning the same repo? – Wyck Nov 27 '11 at 22:06
Since it's the WP Plugin repo I'm not cloning the whole repo, I'm just cloning 10 plugins I want to track in Git. It seems each one needs to go through 300,000+ revisions (see note I just added that might be the gateway to an answer) – jb510 Nov 27 '11 at 22:49
Oh right, that is crazy. One day maybe wordpress will move to git or mercurial or any DRC for that matter. I don't think it would be very feasible to clone 10K + plugins to github, at least without asking them nicely. – Wyck Nov 28 '11 at 0:31
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Yep, you can pass the initial revision from which to start scanning:

git svn clone -s -r387893 http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/your-plugin/

You can hunt down that revision by using this command:

svn log http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/your-plugin/

The last line shows the earliest revision.

Source:

http://teleogistic.net/2011/05/revisiting-git-github-and-the-wordpress-org-plugin-repository/

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Thanks! Is there a good way to guess how many revisions back I should start? I'd be happy with 12 months or something, but I'm really unfamiliar with svn and how I'd find that. – jb510 Nov 27 '11 at 23:00
Updated answer. – scribu Nov 28 '11 at 1:18
Thank you so much Scribu, I'm so much happier now. I finally got everything I was tracking in SVN moved over to Git-SVN and it only took a few minute per plugin instead of hours per plugin it took before. – jb510 Nov 28 '11 at 3:22
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