I read the manual and it said clone is Runs init and fetch.
But I tried this:
git svn clone -T http://svn.felspar.com/public/m-intercept/trunk/
then got:
fileparse(): need a valid pathname at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 405
And not any file was downloaded.
But when I used:
git svn init http://svn.felspar.com/public/m-intercept/trunk/
git svn fetch
All right. It works perfectly. I use the exact same URL.
The -T parameter expects the name of the trunk dir.
Normal usage would be
to tell git where to look for trunk, tags and branches and map them to git tags and branches.