From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Bosch Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:56 -0400 Message-ID: <0F4B0DFB-A0A3-45FA-9BB7-801FFD2E8862@adacore.com> References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70ACE0502@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <20090422152719.GA12881@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090422200502.GA14304@coredump.intra.peff.net> <064C9132-2E72-4665-A44D-A2F4194DAC2B@adacore.com> <20090423175612.GV23604@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff King , Nicolas Pitre , Brandon Casey , John Dlugosz , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 23 20:13:16 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 1Lx3PY-0000TE-DN for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:12:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756886AbZDWSLA (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756372AbZDWSK7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:59 -0400 Received: from rock.gnat.com ([205.232.38.15]:57059 "EHLO rock.gnat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754354AbZDWSK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8B82BAAF4; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3Fq7HnD3VOci; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.16.1.95] (sdsl-216-220-103-157.dsl.bway.net [216.220.103.157]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77A1F2BAAC9; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20090423175612.GV23604@spearce.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -Geert