Thanks to Ka-Hing Cheung for the initial bug report and patch:
> git-svn uses $ra->get_latest_revnum to find out the latest
> revision, but that can be problematic, because get_latest_revnum
> returns the latest revnum in the entire repository, not
> restricted by whatever URL you used to construct $ra. So if you
> do git svn clone -r HEAD svn://blah/blah/trunk, it won't work if
> the latest checkin is in one of the branches (it will try to
> fetch a rev that doesn't exist in trunk, making the clone
> useless).
Relying on SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM (-1) as the "start"
argument to SVN::Ra::get_log() proved unreliable with http(s)
URLs so the result of SVN::Ra::get_latest_revnum() is used as
the "start" argument instead.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>