From: Jon Smirl Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:44:07 GMT Subject: Re: svn to git, N-squared? Message-ID: <9e4733910606120944p4deb170ejc2863846685917f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/12/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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