git svn clone terminating prematurely (I think)

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Hi All,

First off I am a new user to git, I'm not a git developer or power user. Am I in the right mailing list? If not could somebody point me where I could get some help from experienced git people?

Here's the problem: I need some help getting my subversion repository cloned over to git. Our svn repository has about 12,000 commits, when I run git svn clone -s -A authors.txt svn+ssh://csvn <at> source.res.ourdomain.com/home/svn/sem sem It runs for about 2h 15m then completes with no error messages. I have also cloned starting at revision 6300, about the middle of the svn repository, and I get the same results as below.

After cloning, I cd into the sem directory and run

$ git log fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'

$ git log --all  # this seems to work

$ git branch -a # shows only about half the branches that should have been cloned

$ ls -al sem total 6 drwxr-xr-x 3 git other 512 Jan 10 20:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 git root 512 Jan 10 20:58 ../ drwxr-xr-x 9 git other 512 Jan 10 23:13 .git/

I think this means the clone terminated prematurely but other than that I'm stuck. There were no error messages from the clone. Could somebody give me some suggestions on what to try? I haven't found the answer via google yet.

Thank you for any help.