From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:55:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn unhandled.log compression
Message-ID: <20090319175514.GC23127@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <49C23815.5010204@klingt.org>

Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> wrote:
> >> i am not familiar with the git svn codebase, so i am not sure, whether
> >> it is feasible to implement a compression of the unhandled.log files,
> >> but it would definitely save me quite a lot of hd space ...
> > 
> > On that note, Eric, what does the unhandled.log file do in the first
> > place? It's name would suggest it lists all revisions that aren't
> > handled yet, but the contents of the file seem to only grow over time,
> > what gives?
> 
> according to the man page, it logs unhandled svn properties

Yup, it logs things that git-svn currently cannot handle.  It's meant to
be machine parseable so other tools[1] can process them after-the-fact.
I would accept a patch for a command like "git svn gc" to deal with
compressing them.

[1] - as far as I know there are none

-- 
Eric Wong