Re: Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2008, 01:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20080917011816.GL28210@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <c49095e30809161640o21cb89b7x17a9ac1b5b18054f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:40:36AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

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> $ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T trunk -b branches
> 
> takes about half an hour to run, the other command (which I already
> started yesterday) seems to be taking (far) more than a day!

What version of Git do you use? If you use a version earlier than 1.5.6 than you can notice *considerable* speed up by upgrading to the latest version of Git. Also, git-svn does not work well on Windows. Cygwin version is slow due to fork(), and MSYS Git has some other issues with Perl. So, if you want to convert a huge SVN repo, it is better to do on Linux and using the latest version of Git. Perhaps, running on tmpfs may speed up the process even more.

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> Therefore, so far, I have not had a chance to run the command to
> completion to see if it gives the desired result.  The greatly
> increased tun time also made me suspicious about whether the command
> was going to do the right thing.  And, I end up with a lot of strange
> looking tags in the (as yet incompletely) imported tree:
> 
> $ git branch -a
>   tags/man-pages-2.00
>   tags/man-pages-2.00@117
>   tags/man-pages-2.01
>   tags/man-pages-2.01@145
>   tags/man-pages-2.02
>   tags/man-pages-2.02@184
>   tags/man-pages-2.03
>   tags/man-pages-2.03@232
>   tags/man-pages-2.04
>   tags/man-pages-2.04@283
> 
> What are the @nnn tags about?

I have never encounted them. Are you sure that you import into a clean Git repo?

Dmitry