Re: Excruciatingly slow git-svn imports

From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: May 6, 2008, 11:23 UTC
Message-ID: <4484D251-B919-40AE-849B-1162F057550C@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080506042508.GA23465@untitled>

On May 6, 2008, at 00:25, Eric Wong wrote:

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> When using "svn cp" on a top-level directory, it *should*
> just show up as a single file change in the log entry.
> Something like:
>
>  A /project/branch/my-new-branch (from /project/trunk:1234)
>
> This would not take much memory at all.
> However, I've also occasionally seen stuff like this:
>
>  A /project/branch/my-new-branch
>  A /project/branch/my-new-branch/file1 (from /project/trunk/ 
> file1:1234)
>  A /project/branch/my-new-branch/file2 (from /project/trunk/ 
> file2:1234)
>  A /project/branch/my-new-branch/file3 (from /project/trunk/ 
> file3:1234)
>  .... many more files and directories along the same lines ...

This is exactly what I'm experiencing.

> This is what I suspect Geert is seeing in his repository and causing
> problems.  Perhaps something caused by cvs2svn importing those tags  
> into
> SVN originally?

Yes, most likely. BTW, the conversion from CVS to SVN took about a day on slightly slower hardware.

   -Geert