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Re: [PATCH] git-svn: unlink internal index files after operations

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Dec 14, 2007, 08:29 UTC
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<20071214082945.GA19559@soma>
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<20071213202757.GA2387@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
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> On 2007-12-13 08:27:34 -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > Being git, we can generate these very quickly on the fly as needed,
> > so there's no point in wasting space for these things for large
> > projects.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> For existing repos, I assume the correct thing to do is to just blast
> all the existing index files manually?

Yes. index files inside $GIT_DIR/svn have always been safely deletable (except while a git-svn is actually running :).

I'll probably work on an automated full migration strategy at some point (handling rev_db => rev_map, mainly) when I have time.

-- 
Eric Wong
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