A svn repository I cloned, had old useless tags deleted, but now after cloning repo with git svn, I can see every of these removed tags in remote tags.
How can this be possible ? Is there a way to tell git svn to not create references to deleted remote svn tags ?
git svn tracks the whole history of a SVN repository, from the revision 1, unless you limit the range of fetched revisions via -r option. From other hand once the history is fetched, it's remembered from where to start so you can remove unneeded entries from .git/refs/... (and perhaps .git/packed-refs and git/svn...)