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Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2006, 20:17 UTC
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On 6/9/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > That looks too small. My svn git import is 2.7GB and the source CVS is
> > 3.0GB. The svn import wasn't finished when I stopped it.
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> Git is much better at packing than either CVS or SVN. Get used to it ;)

The git tree that Martin got from cvsps is much smaller that the git tree I got from going to svn then to git. I don't why the trees are 700KB different, it may be different amounts of packing, or one of the conversion tools is losing something.

Earlier he said:
>git-repack -a -d but it OOMs on my 2GB+2GBswap machine :(
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> > My cvsps process is still running from last night. The error file is
> > 341MB. How big is it when the conversion is finished? My machine is
> > swapping to death.
>
> Do you have all the cvsps patches? There's a few important ones floating
> around, and David Mansfield never did a 2.2 release..

I am running cvsps-2.1-3.fc5 so I may be wasting my time. Error out is 535MB now. He sent me some git patches, but none for cvsps.

> I'm pretty sure Martin doesn't run plain 2.1.

I haven't come up with anything that is likely to result in Mozilla switching over to git. Right now it takes three days to convert the tree. The tree will have to be run in parallel for a while to convince everyone to switch. I don't have a solution to keeping it in sync in near real time (commits would still go to CVS). Most Mozilla developers are interested but the infrastructure needs some help.

Martin has also brought up the problem with needing a partial clone so that everyone doesn't have to bring down the entire repository. A trunk checkout is 340MB and Martin's git tree is 2GB (mine 2.7GB). A kernel tree is only 680M.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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  1. Jon SmirlJun 9, 2006
  2. Nicolas PitreJun 9, 2006
  3. Martin LanghoffJun 9, 2006
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  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 9, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2006
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  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2006
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  11. Jakub NarebskiJun 9, 2006
  12. Jon SmirlJun 9, 2006
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  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2006
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  19. Greg KHJun 9, 2006
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  21. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2006
  22. Jon SmirlJun 10, 2006
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  24. Jon SmirlJun 10, 2006
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  27. Nicolas PitreJun 9, 2006
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  30. Martin LanghoffJun 10, 2006
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  43. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2006
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  50. Martin LanghoffJun 10, 2006
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  56. Jon SmirlJun 10, 2006
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  59. Lars JohannsenJun 10, 2006
  60. Nicolas PitreJun 11, 2006
  61. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2006
  62. Martin LanghoffJun 18, 2006
  63. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2006
  64. Broken PPC sha1.. (Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git)Linus Torvalds, Jun 18, 2006
  65. Fix PPC SHA1 routine for large input buffersPaul Mackerras, Jun 18, 2006
  66. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2006
  67. Pavel RoskinJun 9, 2006

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