From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:10:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn .git/svn/*/index files taking up huge amounts of disk space
Message-ID: <eaa105840907181110q416a9dd0j989a63eedd9b15ca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CFF1FF99-9237-4C89-BB2D-66F82CF683B1@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Robert Zeh wrote:
> What are the index files under .git/svn used for?  Am I doing anything
> wrong?  Can the index files under .git/svn be safely removed?  My brief look
> at git-svn.perl makes me think that they are temporary, but I'm not sure.

The index files are used to keep track of the commits that came from
svn, so that git-svn rebase knows where to start from (either when
committing or when doing a fetch from svn).

Unless you used the --no-metadata switch, the files under .git/svn can
be safely removed (at the cost of performance when operating a branch
that has had its index removed).

Peter Harris