git svn clone specific branches and merge

Question

I am looking to migrate my codebase from svn to git. There are too many branches in my svn repo. I only wish to clone couple of branches and merge them together and push it to g

Answer 1

git svn fetch (and clone) have --ignore-paths and --include-paths so you can ignore some branches/tags (which are paths in SVN repo) or include only matching branches/tags. So it should be something like

git init from_svn
cd from_svn
git config svn-remote.svn.url "svn://…"
git config svn-remote.svn.include-paths "^/branches/3\." # Include only branches that match name 3.*
git svn fetch svn