From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:27:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git-add,& "file vanishing" -> need git-add again
Message-ID: <46a038f90612211227v2f1325e5i96ca6f773eb05def@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061221141335.65170.qmail@web86902.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On 12/22/06, David Tweed <tweed314@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Sidenote: I'm moving the database from the old format to the new one by repeatedly unpacking
> the old database for snapshot X, git-add'ing any file names which have _never_ been in any snapshot
> before, git-commit -a, git-tag, then remove all the files unpacked by the
> old database and move onto snapshot X+1. This takes less than a second per snapshot.

Not sure how large your snapshots are -- a second sounds like a long
time for git operations. While it is a bit more complex, you _can_
operate directly on the index, and the "snapshot" never needs to hit
the disk as such during your migration.

Have a look at how the cvsimport script works for an example.

cheers.


martin