title: Can you specify which svn branches with git svn?
body: <p>I think my question is somewhat similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/258590/how-do-i-import-svn-branches-rooted-in-different-directories-into-git-using-git-s" title="How do I import svn branches rooted in different directories into git using git-svn?">CaptainPicard's</a> but dissimilar enough that I feel compelled to ask so here goes.</p>
  
  <p>I have an old SVN repository with around 7500 revisions and part of those 7500 revisions are some pretty large .fla files. And these .fla files exist in a number of the branches which have been created. As a result of this my .git directory after import is pretty large, something like 3.5 GB if I get the whole trunk, all the branches and all the tags. In an effort to pair this down some I did another svn clone of just the directory in trunk I wanted to work with but including all branches obviously pulls down all the history and objects for those.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is this, is there some way to tell git to only fetch certain branches. For example only fetch branches starting with some identifier (e.g. mybranch)?</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Update for clarity:</em></strong> I know I can point git svn init/clone at a single specific branch. What I want to be able to do is point it at a set of branches. For example, instead of matching branches/* only branches matching mybranchset*</p>