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Re: svn to git, N-squared?

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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2006, 16:44 UTC
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On 6/12/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> > Is there some pack equivalent for svn that I haven't found yet?
>
> Is this literally what SVN does normally? That's just insane. I mean, even
> git tried to at least hash out the files (and yeah, admittedly even that
> worked less well than I was hoping for, but I at least fixed it within
> just a few weeks through the pack mechanism).
>
> Or is that 411,000 files a result of how git-svnimport does things, rather
> than some basic SVN approach to live: does it perhaps end up checking out
> each file under an individual temporary name?
The svn repository was built by cvs2svn, none of the git tools were involved.
-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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