Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Chris Lee <chris133@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uh... somehow, it lost this part:
> 
> >All that's needed is to get data from SVN in a way that it can be
> >fed into git-fastimport.
> 
> That's what I meant - I assume that someone already has the
> svn-repo-to-gfi piece working? Where's that available from?

No.  That hasn't been written.

In theory someone could take the SVN dump library (its a chunk of
C code which parses SVN dump files) and write a tool which translates
it into git-fastimport.

One could also use the SVN client library to suck data from SVN
and pump it into git-fastimport.

Jon Smirl attempted to create a CVS-->git-fastimport program in
Python by starting with the cvs2svn codebase, but that doesn't
do anything about importing *from* SVN.  Jon was able to import
the entire Mozilla CVS repository (250k commits, about 3 GiB
input) in 2 hours using his hacked up cvs2svn and git-fastimport.
The resulting pack was ~900 MiB.  He recompressed that using
`git repack -a -d --window=50 --depth=1000` (which is insane) in
about an hour.

-- 
Shawn.