title: git svn returns empty repository
body: <p>I am trying to move my ~6GB local subversions repository to git and keep all history.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -A /Users/dominikwilkowski/Desktop/users.txt file://localhost/Users/dominik/repository/svn/sites /Users/dominik/repository/git/sites
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This command will run without error or feeedback at all and will end up creating an empty repository.</p>
  
  <p>My svn version is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ svn --version
  svn, version 1.7.8 (r1419691)
     compiled Dec 13 2012, 15:48:59
  
  Copyright (C) 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.
  This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE
  file for more information.
  Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/
  
  The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
  
  * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
    - handles 'http' scheme
    - handles 'https' scheme
  * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
    - with Cyrus SASL authentication
    - handles 'svn' scheme
  * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
    - handles 'file' scheme
  * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
    - handles 'http' scheme
    - handles 'https' scheme
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my git version:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ git --version
  git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using <a href="http://www.git-tower.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tower</a> as my new git client and <a href="http://www.versionsapp.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">versions</a> as my subversions client but have been trying to manually clone as tower fails with dependency issues....</p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated at this point.</p>
  
  <p>ps for the moving process itself I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/3972103">this</a> very detailed answer</p>