{"thread":{"id":"17352","subject":"git-svn: cloning from svn.apache.org","startedAt":"2009-01-25T10:49:01Z","lastAt":"2009-01-25T10:49:01Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Florian Weimer"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"101823","messageId":"8763k364pu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de","threadId":"17352","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-svn: cloning from svn.apache.org","fromName":"Florian Weimer","fromEmail":"fw@deneb.enyo.de","sentAt":"2009-01-25T10:49:01Z","receivedAt":"2009-01-25T10:49:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"fw@deneb.enyo.de","avatar":null},"body":"What can be done to speed up cloning from svn.apache.org?  It's a\nSubversion repository with over 700,000 revisions.  Many projects\nstored there started their life in some of the later revisions, and\nthe forward-scanning part of git-svn takes ages.\n\nI wonder if it were faster to search history backwards, starting with\nthe specified path, similar to what \"svn log\" does?\n"}]}