From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:17:44 GMT
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Message-ID: <op.usuqfufi1e62zd@balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de>
In-Reply-To: <0F4B0DFB-A0A3-45FA-9BB7-801FFD2E8862@adacore.com>

Am 23.04.2009, 20:10 Uhr, schrieb Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>:

>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 13:56, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> If your favorite import tool (*cough* git-svn *cough*) can't use
>> fast-import, and you are importing a large enough repository that
>> this matters to you, use another importer that can use fast-import.
>
> How did you guess? :) You're right of course, except that I can't
> use fast-import AFAIK. The issue is also more general, as the
> same scenario of adding new objects and repacking occurs
> outside the context of git-svn.

If you can't use fast-import for lack of access to the SVN repo, svnsync  
may help with that part. Or easier: ask the admin to upload a dump or  
provide one for download... :-)

-- 
Matthias Andree