Re: git svn's performance issue and strange pauses, and other thing

> On Sep 19, 2014, at 1:25, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> 
> Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>> -  I know I can probably just "read the source", but I'd like to know
>> why .git/svn/.caches is even larger than .git/objects (which supposedly
>> contains everything that's of interest)? I hope this can be documented
>> towards the end of the man-page, for example, of important parts
>> of .git/svn (and what not to do with them...), without needing to
>> 'read the source'. Here is part of "du" from a couple of days ago:
>> 
>> 254816    .git/objects
>> 307056    .git/svn/.caches
>> 332452    .git/svn
>> 588064    .git
>> 
>> The actual .git/config is here - this should be sufficient info for
>> somebody looking into experiencing the issues I mentioned above.
> 
> IIRC, the caching is unique to mergeinfo, so perhaps Jakob's patches
> help, there, too.