From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:08:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Make git-svn fetch ~1.7x faster
Message-ID: <20071023060812.GA30978@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <1193118397-4696-1-git-send-email-aroben@apple.com>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:46:28PM -0700, Adam Roben wrote:
> 
> This patch series makes git-svn fetch about 1.7x faster by reducing the number
> of forks/execs that occur for each file retrieved from Subversion. To do so, a
> few new options are added to git-cat-file and git-hash-object to allow
> continuous input on stdin and continuous output on stdout, so that one instance
> of each of these commands can be kept running for the duration of the fetch.

You don't need to do this to avoid forks. Just use git-fast-import
instead.

Mike