Your assumption is correct. I supplied the clone command with the path to the MyDir directory within the repository.
I'll be able to try cloning your project when I get home, but it won't be from the same machine, so I'm guessing it wouldn't be of any help. I'm afraid the systems I was referring to (the one running the Git commands as well as the one hosting the SVN repository) are not connected to the internet (and connecting them is not an option). I'm afraid I can only try to run commands you suggest and report the outcome, as far as trial & error goes. I do have access to the SVN repositories, though. I could try installing Linux on one of the systems we have, but is the difference really so great that it would reduce actions that take ~8 hours on Windows to manageable durations (should be seconds for viewing the status of files, and no more than a few minutes for commits)? I'd like to note again that if I don't specify a specific revision, it works (besides the problem of subsequent actions taking too long); this makes me believe that the problem lies with the revision selection. One of the answers I've found online suggested that there might be a problem if the revision I am attempting to fetch is not a revision of that specific directory. For that reason I added and deleted a dummy file in the MyDir directory, in order to advance its revision to become the head revision. Yet the problem persists. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/byY9qdjzH5wJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
