# git-svn init/fetch: wow that's slow 4 messages from 2009-04-22 to 2009-04-22. Participants: Lachlan Deck, Sverre Rabbelier, Sam Vilain, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18998 ## Lachlan Deck, 2009-04-22 07:40 Subject: git-svn init/fetch: wow that's slow Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E26B8975-74D3-4F01-A9D9-DAAB96C8FC85%40gmail.com ``` Hi there, I've just finished checking out a project that has some 5700 odd commits (with some 15 branches, and 40-50 tags) and it's taken 4 days to complete! Woah - that was testing my patience :-) Okay, so I'm using git 1.6.2. I assume this is all a 'known issue'. Has there been any work / plans towards improving this? Thanks. with regards, -- Lachlan Deck ``` ## Sverre Rabbelier, 2009-04-22 09:55 Subject: Re: git-svn init/fetch: wow that's slow Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fabb9a1e0904220255w55c8fee1uf534aad07cefa818%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Heya, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:40, Lachlan Deck wrote: > Okay, so I'm using git 1.6.2. I assume this is all a 'known issue'. Has > there been any work / plans towards improving this? This can be improved by using svn 1.5's delta feature, however, Eric (the author of git-svn) does not have the time to do this, and no-one has stepped up to do this. A workaround is to not clone from r1 but instead start at a more recent revision. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier ``` ## Sam Vilain, 2009-04-22 11:05 Subject: Re: git-svn init/fetch: wow that's slow Message-ID: <1240398352.20236.26.camel@maia.lan> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1240398352.20236.26.camel%40maia.lan In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 11:55 +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:40, Lachlan Deck wrote: > > Okay, so I'm using git 1.6.2. I assume this is all a 'known issue'. Has > > there been any work / plans towards improving this? > > This can be improved by using svn 1.5's delta feature, however, Eric > (the author of git-svn) does not have the time to do this, and no-one > has stepped up to do this. > A workaround is to not clone from r1 but instead start at a more > recent revision. Fetching over plain svn:// is IME much faster. But let's face it, SVN is no race-horse and was never designed for the case where people like to look at their history much. Developing with a trunk was so painful, people would rather just forget... One workaround is to use SVK to do the initial mirroring, and the --use-svm-mirror flag to convert your SVK mirror path to git. See http://utsl.gen.nz/talks/git-svn/intro.html for a guide for the second part of that. SVK has implemented some of the harder parts of the SVN API to get right, such as request pipelining - see http://code.bestpractical.com/svk/trunk/lib/SVK/Mirror/Backend/SVNRaPipe.pm for how the SVN API "supports" this. As a result of this dedication to the cause, SVK does this part very quickly. Sam ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-04-22 11:16 Subject: Re: git-svn init/fetch: wow that's slow Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqmya9rlaj.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <1240398352.20236.26.camel@maia.lan> ``` Sam Vilain writes: > One workaround is to use SVK to do the initial mirroring, Probably svnsync can help here too. Dunno whether it's gonna be faster ... -- Matthieu ```