git-svn --ignore-paths

Question

I\'m struggling for a number of hours now with the --ignore-paths option to git-svn, in an attempt to fetch only certain tags from a large repository.

I want to start

Answer 1

I have a similar problem and a partial Solution for my case .. .

Context :
We have only one SVN repository for Meca, Hardware, Software team... the repository is a complete mess.. so I try to use regex to reduce the area to scan. After 1 day I just gave up.

Finally I used the include-path option to scan only folder with "*Src*" inside. which speed up the scan. also use the option :
-r to reduce the history size you will get in local.
--no-minimize-url otherwise git-svn will scan the whole repository even if you specify the trunk and branch location.

git svn clone 
-r11213:HEAD 
--prefix svn/
--no-minimize-url
--trunk=/trunk/dev/SW/Code/Controller1
--branches=/branches/SW_team/
--include-paths=.*Src.*
https://svnserver.compagny.com/Project1/
Controller1__git__

notice that right now i do not care of the Tags.

Hope it could help, even It's not the original question (5 years ago :-) )

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EDIT: I cannot add a comment so I comment the question here (not enough reputation point)

1) --ignore-paths can be given for git svn [init/fetch or clone] (i do not know if there is a different behavior)
2) --ignore-paths expect a regex , be carefull the "." means any character. By chance the carater "." is also any character so regex=Acme-5.0 will match string="Acme-5.0" but also string="Acme-580", it should work anyway.