Re: git-svn taking a long time

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Feb 10, 2010, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <873a18pw3c.fsf@krank.kagedal.org>
In-Reply-To: <87bpfxov6w.fsf@krank.kagedal.org>

David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:

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> Andrew Myrick <amyrick@apple.com> writes:
>
>> Give 1.7.0-rc2 a try.  It includes commit 8bff7c5383ed833bd1df9c8d85c00a27af3e5b02, which attempts to persistently cache a lot of the processing that git-svn has to do on subversion's merge tickets, which has improved my fetch times significantly.  
>
> By "merge tickets", are you talking about the merge functionality that
> appeared in subversion 1.5? We don't use that.
>
> But I had another idea. I pecularity of our subversion repo is that we
> no longer use the foo/trunk branch, but only foo/branches/*. But we did
> once upon a time have a foo/trunk. And since I didn't include a "fetch =
> foo/trunk:refs/remotes/svn/trunk" in my config, it might need to refetch
> that information every time. For instance, the first revision is on
> trunk.
>
> I'm rerunning the fetch now with the trunk added, so see if it helps.

That seems to have done the trick. Now it's quick when there is nothing to do.

Perhaps there is something in the git-svn caching that could still be improved?

-- 
David Kågedal