From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Cc: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>, Matt Stump <mstump@goatyak.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Subject: Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:26:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020165630.GB13716@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30010681.536316.1287584507672.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
Hi Stephen,
Stephen Bash writes:
> > From: "Will Palmer" <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
> > I was under the impression that there
> > would be one "one-to-one" mapping branch (which would never be checked
> > out), containing the history of /, and that the "real" git branches,
> > tags, etc, would be based on the trees originally referenced by the root
> > checkout, with git-notes (or similar) being used to track the weirdness
> > in mappings.
>
> Admittedly I'm not in the inner circle, but this is the first time
> I've heard the idea.
Do hang out on the development channel - a lot of stuff cooks there :)
> It's certainly intriguing. In this case would
> the one-to-one branch include the full SVN repository history (all
> projects), or would svn-fe/git-fast-import filter down to
> subdirectories of interest?
Full history. Atleast that's what I was thinking about sometime ago.
> Along those lines I can contribute the following data point: my
> initial fast-import repository weighs in at 1.3G, while after my
> scripts run the final product is 659M (and no, they are not hard
> linking to each other). Unfortunately I don't have a good
> accounting of the size difference (obviously some is filtering down
> to a single SVN project).
Yeah, David reported similar statistics after repacking the ASF
repository.
-- Ram
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 15:44 Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch Matt Stump
2010-10-13 16:02 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-13 17:47 ` Matt Stump
2010-10-13 18:18 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-14 16:22 ` Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch) Stephen Bash
2010-10-14 16:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-14 20:07 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-15 14:50 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-15 23:39 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-16 0:16 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-17 2:25 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-17 3:33 ` David Michael Barr
2010-10-18 5:17 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-18 7:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 16:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-18 16:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 16:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 17:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-18 17:18 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 17:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:10 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 18:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:20 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 18:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:35 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 19:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-19 3:08 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-19 0:40 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-19 1:42 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-19 6:42 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-19 13:33 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-19 14:28 ` David Michael Barr
2010-10-19 14:57 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-20 8:39 ` Will Palmer
2010-10-20 11:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-20 13:42 ` Will Palmer
2010-10-20 20:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 1:54 ` mrevilgnome
2010-10-21 8:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 13:49 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-21 9:08 ` Will Palmer
2010-10-21 14:00 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-21 18:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 21:27 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-21 22:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 23:26 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-22 10:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 15:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 16:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-20 14:05 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-20 14:21 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-20 16:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
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