svn-copy

In my company we are about to switch from svn to git. The SVN we use is very big, doesn't have a svn layout and on every version split we made a svn copy. SVN Repository structur: svnserver.company.de product xy majorversionnumber 1 majorversionnumber 2 majorversionnumber 3 minorversionnumber 3.0.0 minorversionnumber 3.0.1 minorversionnumber ... majorversionnumber 4 .... product zw What we want or what i was expecting git to do: git svn clone does clone all files from one subfolder / copy with the full history of these files (like tortoise does by unchecking "Stop on copy/rename"). What git is