Problem:
You want to use git-svn to clone a SVN repository, but you don’t want to clone the entire history (which can be quite slow) but only the latest revision.
11
Feb
2013
Subversion
11
Feb
2013
SVN: Find last revision number without cloning
Problem:
You want to find out what the last revision number of a remote subversion repository is without cloning it (e.g. because cloning takes a looong time with subversion).