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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: unlink internal index files after operations
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:29:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214082945.GA19559@soma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213202757.GA2387@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2007-12-13 08:27:34 -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > Being git, we can generate these very quickly on the fly as needed,
> > so there's no point in wasting space for these things for large
> > projects.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> For existing repos, I assume the correct thing to do is to just blast
> all the existing index files manually?

Yes.  index files inside $GIT_DIR/svn have always been safely deletable
(except while a git-svn is actually running :).

I'll probably work on an automated full migration strategy at some
point (handling rev_db => rev_map, mainly) when I have time.

-- 
Eric Wong

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 16:27 [PATCH] git-svn: unlink internal index files after operations Eric Wong
2007-12-13 20:27 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-12-14  8:29   ` Eric Wong [this message]

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