From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra 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 Message-ID: <20101020165630.GB13716@kytes> References: <1287563970.2673.12.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain> <30010681.536316.1287584507672.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Will Palmer , Matt Stump , git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder , David Michael Barr , Sverre Rabbelier , Tomas Carnecky To: Stephen Bash X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 20 18:57:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8byd-0005Ye-DY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:57:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754271Ab0JTQ5Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:57:16 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:56328 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754179Ab0JTQ5P (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:57:15 -0400 Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so1732688yxm.19 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:57:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=o/NB0Ri39LDby3ClO9xX9pNS5cmApbefH0ohi4CYBvc=; b=Xta4RW6IODeEa890Ke5sGMnEOnw6kIQz7vyHfqhfFrk/Pe7LObuPDoFZwuCqiTLhGe u3W2bUJn5cYHfuR+VbNkahHm4GBTmIPEaNgZQ1iD7kWxuDF3H2P61qHaglEkSWGNBCib m7wn20ykVnuVbA355cK+6TG8o/Tf/WVA7y8jE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=TrUUw7omVICl/FIQtz9VP7Ywl8fk27PcGuD9hATJsHNdU+43sSbShAJn2x3CRn+9W8 DkLohQfUHSkXJCuM+UD5pG6mH6JFvWhGrVJ8i+7APRLhXKfzHDDIx6845LH1WbRJIIUg 38La8Vh/QkxK9DtBXCQuDssxOnvQ+H+6v/N3g= Received: by 10.90.36.6 with SMTP id j6mr626354agj.28.1287593834973; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kytes ([203.110.240.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f50sm324428yhc.38.2010.10.20.09.57.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30010681.536316.1287584507672.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Stephen, Stephen Bash writes: > > From: "Will Palmer" > > 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