From: David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:15:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC update extra!] git-remote-svn: Week 13
Message-ID: <70D9930D-DDB6-493D-9936-21E9CD4426A2@cordelta.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi==fm8kxoB9aPYJNqBO=O9ALq-1qTzQj9RSXYBN@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

>> The reason being that going from git to subversion there is a
>> general increase in redundant data.
> 
> I don't understand?

The primary issue is a blob may be repeated in a non-copy operation,
requiring its content to be described again. This sort of operation only
happens 20% of the time with the ASF repository. We would have to
either write out the content again or compute a new delta depending
on the target version of the svn dump stream.

>> On the other hand, to produce an svn dump stream we may need
>> to repeat elements encountered earlier in the fast-export stream.
> 
> What do you mean with this?

See above, there was some redundancy in my post.

--
David Barr.