Re: git-svn and submodules

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 15, 2007, 10:00 UTC
Message-ID: <47133A40.20303@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <05CAB148-56ED-4FF1-8AAB-4BA2A0B70C2C@lrde.epita.fr>

Benoit SIGOURE wrote:

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>   - git svn create-ignore (to create one .gitignore per directory from 
> the svn:ignore properties.  This has the disadvantage of committing the 
> .gitignore during the next dcommit, but when you import a repo with tons 
> of ignores (>1000), using git svn show-ignore to build .git/info/exclude 
> is *not* a good idea, because things like git-status will end up doing 
>  >1000 fnmatch *per file* in the repo, which leads to git-status taking 
> more than 4s on my Core2Duo 2Ghz 2G RAM)

How spoiled we are. I just ran cvs status on a checkout of a repo located on a server in the local network. It took 6 seconds to complete :P

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