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Re: Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)

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GBGeert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2011, 21:23 UTC
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On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:39, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Geert Bosch wrote:
> 
>> These narrow clones are especially important for imports of unwieldy
>> svn repositories where there is a large amount of unstructured
>> branching.
> 
> Wouldn't a more careful import be a better solution to that problem?
Yes.
> Practically speaking, I'd rather work with an enormous svn repo like
> that by using git-svn to extract subsets than with a botched import
> that treats it as one huge (git-managed) project.

Practically speaking, I don't always have a say in the organization of repositories that I have to work with. Some would rather spend 30+ days of CPU time to import an entire SVN repository with branch forests straight into git than considering organization. Of course the resulting git repository will be less than useful. And that's where the narrow clone comes in handy...

  -Geert
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  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  5. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
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  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  11. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  12. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  13. Shawn PearceFeb 2, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2011
  15. david@lang.hmFeb 2, 2011
  16. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  17. Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)Jonathan Nieder, Feb 3, 2011
  18. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  19. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
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  21. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  22. Tracking empty directoriesJonathan Nieder, Feb 1, 2011
  23. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  24. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
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  26. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  27. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
  28. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  29. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 2, 2011
  30. Kevin P. FlemingFeb 2, 2011
  31. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  32. big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010david@lang.hm, Feb 1, 2011
  33. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  34. Matthieu MoyFeb 1, 2011
  35. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
  36. Matthieu MoyFeb 1, 2011

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