From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:41:59 GMT Subject: Re: svn to git, N-squared? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606120922g181a5aaal623fd3f29b839f4c@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > 64 files in tmp. > But the SVN repository itself has 411,000 files in it. Split between > two directories. Ouch. That sounds like it. > 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? Linus