Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2010, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20101020165630.GB13716@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <30010681.536316.1287584507672.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Bash writes:

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> > From: "Will Palmer" <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
> > I was under the impression that there
> > would be one "one-to-one" mapping branch (which would never be checked
> > out), containing the history of /, and that the "real" git branches,
> > tags, etc, would be based on the trees originally referenced by the root
> > checkout, with git-notes (or similar) being used to track the weirdness
> > in mappings.
> 
> Admittedly I'm not in the inner circle, but this is the first time
> I've heard the idea.

Do hang out on the development channel - a lot of stuff cooks there :)

> It's certainly intriguing.  In this case would
> the one-to-one branch include the full SVN repository history (all
> projects), or would svn-fe/git-fast-import filter down to
> subdirectories of interest?

Full history. Atleast that's what I was thinking about sometime ago.

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> Along those lines I can contribute the following data point: my
> initial fast-import repository weighs in at 1.3G, while after my
> scripts run the final product is 659M (and no, they are not hard
> linking to each other).  Unfortunately I don't have a good
> accounting of the size difference (obviously some is filtering down
> to a single SVN project).

Yeah, David reported similar statistics after repacking the ASF repository.

-- Ram