I'm not necessarily asking for solutions at this point; I'm asking why the "solutions" involve jumping through so many hoops to work around the VCS in order to do something incredibly common.
svn co remote_repo_path/branches/bugfix bugfix
git clone -b bugfix ./local_repo_path bugfix
It could be simpler if you removed the trailing target folder name (but git would name the checkout according to the repo name, instead of the branch name).
