# git-svn: cloning from svn.apache.org

1 messages from 2009-01-25 to 2009-01-25. Participants: Florian Weimer.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17352

## Florian Weimer, 2009-01-25 10:49

Subject: git-svn: cloning from svn.apache.org
Message-ID: <8763k364pu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8763k364pu.fsf%40mid.deneb.enyo.de

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What can be done to speed up cloning from svn.apache.org?  It's a
Subversion repository with over 700,000 revisions.  Many projects
stored there started their life in some of the later revisions, and
the forward-scanning part of git-svn takes ages.

I wonder if it were faster to search history backwards, starting with
the specified path, similar to what "svn log" does?

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