How to use git-svn to checkout only trunk and not branches and tags?

Question

I\'m working on a Java legacy project which has 20 modules connected to each other. So, each module has it\'s own branch and tag. The structure is like this:

Answer 1

Edit: I misread the question and answered what I thought you were asking, not what you actually asked.

To clone just the trunk

Cloning a single Subversion directory is easy, and it actually doesn't matter which directory you clone. Just don't specify any of the "layout" arguments, and give the path to the trunk directly:

git svn clone http://path.to.svn.repo/module1/trunk

To clone a specific module, including tags and branches and so forth

A "normal" git svn clone would look something like the following:

git svn clone --stdlayout http://path.to.svn.repo/

What you want to use instead will be thus:

git svn clone --stdlayout http://path.to.svn.repo/module1/

That will find the trunk, branch and tag subfolders of the module1 folder, and clone them for you.