git-svn init url://to/the/repo local-repo
will create the local-repo dirrectory if doesn't exist yet and
populate it as expected.
Original patch by Luca Barbato, cleaned up and made to work for
the current version of git-svn by me (Eric Wong).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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