Re: git svn unhandled.log compression
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
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- Mar 19, 2009, 11:06 UTC
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Heya
[full message quoted as now ccing Eric]
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 00:30, Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> wrote:
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> is there a way to compress the unhandled.log files, generated by git svn? > tracking several projects with git svn, the unhandled.log files are > larger, than the actual data ... > > e.g. the mirror of the svn repository of the boost library gives me: > 135M .git/objects > 283M .git/svn > > the unhandled.log files can be compressed at pretty high rates, these > are the differently compressed files from the trunk of boost svn: > 9.0M unhandled.log > 584K unhandled.log.gz > 396K unhandled.log.bz2 > 344K unhandled.log.lzma > > i am not familiar with the git svn codebase, so i am not sure, whether > it is feasible to implement a compression of the unhandled.log files, > but it would definitely save me quite a lot of hd space ...
On that note, Eric, what does the unhandled.log file do in the first place? It's name would suggest it lists all revisions that aren't handled yet, but the contents of the file seem to only grow over time, what gives?
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier