I have some old code in CVS that I wish to get into git.
I got the code out of the remote CVS repository using cvsclone so it was a local copy.

I created a svn directory using

 svnadmin create /home/user/svn/project

Then I ran cvs2svn with a dumpfile

 cvs2svn --dumpfile=/tmp/project.dump --trunk=project/trunk  --branches=project/branches --tags=project/tags .

and then ran:

svnadmin load project < /tmp/project.dump

At this point i have the following directories in my svn directory: conf, db, format, hooks, locks. As I understand I cannot see the svn structure in the directory (like in CVS) so I do the following command on my svn directory:

svnlook tree  /home/user/svn/project

I can see all the files from cvs in the trunk, branches, tags etc directories. So as I understand I have a local svn repository for my project

What i am struggling to do now is get this local repository of my project to git (without putting it on a remote svn repository)

I have tried a few ways of going from svn to git (including this one: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/migrating-from-svn-git-8-steps-preserving-history-giovanni-zito)
I get no errors running the following commands:

git svn init file:///home/user/svn/project --stdlayout --no-metadata
git config svn.authorsfile /home/user/svn/project_svn_authors.log
git svn fetch

When I run:

 git branch -a  

I get nothing, no errors, nothing output. It seems the init or fetch call above has perhaps failed? How can i find out what is failing to work?

Thank you.

p.s. I have also tried using reposurgeon but was also unsuccessful with this. I have very little expertise in cvs, svn or git so very much trying to learn.