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I am trying to move my ~6GB local subversions repository to git and keep all history.

$ git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -A /Users/dominikwilkowski/Desktop/users.txt file://localhost/Users/dominik/repository/svn/sites /Users/dominik/repository/git/sites

This command will run without error or feeedback at all and will end up creating an empty repository.

My svn version is:

$ 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

and my git version:

$ git --version
git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37)

I am using Tower as my new git client and versions as my subversions client but have been trying to manually clone as tower fails with dependency issues....

Any help is appreciated at this point.

ps for the moving process itself I found this very detailed answer

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  • The URL you give has to be essentially the one you use to access the SVN repository. Just make sure you get all you need. And such a size repository will take days to slurp down. – vonbrand Mar 03 '13 at 03:20
  • I did that... giving me an error ```no such method url at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/SVN/Ra.pm line 489.``` ... – Dominik Mar 03 '13 at 03:38
  • Some missing dependency? What _exact_ `git svn` command did you give? – vonbrand Mar 04 '13 at 02:01
  • ```git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -A users.txt file:///dir/to/repsoitory /user/dir/destination``` I think at this point it has something to do with my local svn install so I dumped the repository and am uploading it now to a amazon s3 bucket and will import from there via beanstalkapp.com ... (still uploading) keep you posted. Thanks for the help so far anyway – Dominik Mar 04 '13 at 03:37

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