A quick tip for git-svn users: When checking out an SVN repository where only the HEAD revision is desired, the following snippet may be useful:
git svn clone -$(svn log -q --limit 1 $SVN_URL | awk '/^r/{print $1}') $SVN_URL
The above snippet determines the most recent SVN revision number (using svn log) and passes it to git-svn-clone. This can also be added to git as an alias by adding the following to .gitconfig:
[alias]
svn-clone-head = "!f() { git svn clone -`svn log -q --limit 1 $1 | awk '/^r/{print $1}'` $1 $2; }; f"
For checking out the last $N commits, a similar convention can be used:
git svn clone -$(svn log -q --limit $N $SVN_URL | awk '/^r/{rev=$1};END{print rev}') $SVN_URL
