From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:23:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC update extra!] git-remote-svn: Week 13
Message-ID: <AANLkTikaVq8kmOtxcMmfkmmNAMtWJ5h2OuMNb+jR589-@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <70D9930D-DDB6-493D-9936-21E9CD4426A2@cordelta.com>

Heya,

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

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier