Re: irc usage..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 22, 2006, 03:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605212053590.3697@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605211209080.3649@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Ok. It's still converting (that's a big archive), but it has passed the 
> cvsps stage without errors for me, and the conversion so far seems ok. But 
> it has only gotten to 
> 
> 	Author: vapier <vapier>  2002-09-23 12:32:42
> 	Changed GPL to GPL-2 in LICENSE and updated SRC_URI to use mirror:
> 
> so it has converted only slightly more than the first two years of 
> history in the roughly 30 minutes I've let it run. So it will take several 
> hours.

Btw, trying this import (which got interrupted by a thunderstorm and one of our first power failures in a long time - just a few seconds, but enough to power off everything but my laptops) it became very obvious that "git cvsimport" really _really_ should re-pack the archive every once in a while.

The old "repack every month or so" approach doesn't work that well when you try to import several years of history in a few hours.

Now, you can just repack after the whole thing is done (it will probably take no more than ~15 minutes or so), but it would probably be best if the import script itself decided to repack every once in a while just to avoid wasting a lot of diskspace _during_ the import itself.

So this isn't so much a correctness issue as a "avoid wasting time and space" issue, but still..

			Linus