git svn clone terminating prematurely (I think)

[Steven Line <sline00@gmail.com>]

Reposting this with a better subject than (unknown) . . .

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.

-- 
Steven Line
303-910-1212
sline00@gmail.com