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Re: [GSoC update extra!] git-remote-svn: Week 13

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 5, 2010, 22:23 UTC
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Heya,

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 17:15, David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com> wrote:

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> 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.

Ah, you mean that there might be a "'M' SP <mode> SP <dataref> SP <path> LF" line in a non-copy operation. It should probably be not that hard to teach git fast-export to not do that.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 30, 2010
  2. David Michael BarrAug 5, 2010
  3. Sverre RabbelierAug 5, 2010
  4. David Michael BarrAug 5, 2010
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