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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: unlink internal index files after operations
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Karl Hasselstr=F6m <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2007-12-13 08:27:34 -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> Excellent!
>=20
> 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 =3D> rev_map, mainly) when I have time.

--=20
Eric Wong