Why is git-svn is randomly changing my root directory to the parent?

Question

I'm trying to git-svn to work on a private shadowcat svn server.

git svn clone -s http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ecarroll/code/perl/foo/Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader/.git/
Using higher level of URL: http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader => http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst

What doesn't that work? It looks like http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader/ has the standard layout.

Is there a sane simple way to get git to pull from an svn repo?