From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: git-svn: cloning from svn.apache.org Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:49:01 +0100 Message-ID: <8763k364pu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 25 11:51:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LR2Zp-0007gJ-7g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:50:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752060AbZAYKtG (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:49:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752055AbZAYKtE (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:49:04 -0500 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:57812 "EHLO mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752050AbZAYKtE (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:49:04 -0500 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1LR2Y1-0003bH-Lu for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:49:01 +0100 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LR2Y1-0002H1-8z for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:49:01 +0100 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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?