git svn unhandled.log compression

git svn unhandled.log compression

[Tim Blechmann]

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hi all,

is there a way to compress the unhandled.log files, generated by git svn?
tracking several projects with git svn, the unhandled.log files are
larger, than the actual data ...

e.g. the mirror of the svn repository of the boost library gives me:
135M	.git/objects
283M	.git/svn

the unhandled.log files can be compressed at pretty high rates, these
are the differently compressed files from the trunk of boost svn:
9.0M	unhandled.log
584K	unhandled.log.gz
396K	unhandled.log.bz2
344K	unhandled.log.lzma

i am not familiar with the git svn codebase, so i am not sure, whether
it is feasible to implement a compression of the unhandled.log files,
but it would definitely save me quite a lot of hd space ...

thnx, tim

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Re: git svn unhandled.log compression

[Sverre Rabbelier]

Heya

[full message quoted as now ccing Eric]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 00:30, Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> wrote:
> is there a way to compress the unhandled.log files, generated by git svn?
> tracking several projects with git svn, the unhandled.log files are
> larger, than the actual data ...
>
> e.g. the mirror of the svn repository of the boost library gives me:
> 135M    .git/objects
> 283M    .git/svn
>
> the unhandled.log files can be compressed at pretty high rates, these
> are the differently compressed files from the trunk of boost svn:
> 9.0M    unhandled.log
> 584K    unhandled.log.gz
> 396K    unhandled.log.bz2
> 344K    unhandled.log.lzma
>
> i am not familiar with the git svn codebase, so i am not sure, whether
> it is feasible to implement a compression of the unhandled.log files,
> but it would definitely save me quite a lot of hd space ...

On that note, Eric, what does the unhandled.log file do in the first
place? It's name would suggest it lists all revisions that aren't
handled yet, but the contents of the file seem to only grow over time,
what gives?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

Re: git svn unhandled.log compression

[Tim Blechmann]

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>> i am not familiar with the git svn codebase, so i am not sure, whether
>> it is feasible to implement a compression of the unhandled.log files,
>> but it would definitely save me quite a lot of hd space ...
> 
> On that note, Eric, what does the unhandled.log file do in the first
> place? It's name would suggest it lists all revisions that aren't
> handled yet, but the contents of the file seem to only grow over time,
> what gives?

according to the man page, it logs unhandled svn properties

tim

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Re: git svn unhandled.log compression

[Eric Wong]

Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> wrote:
> >> i am not familiar with the git svn codebase, so i am not sure, whether
> >> it is feasible to implement a compression of the unhandled.log files,
> >> but it would definitely save me quite a lot of hd space ...
> > 
> > On that note, Eric, what does the unhandled.log file do in the first
> > place? It's name would suggest it lists all revisions that aren't
> > handled yet, but the contents of the file seem to only grow over time,
> > what gives?
> 
> according to the man page, it logs unhandled svn properties

Yup, it logs things that git-svn currently cannot handle.  It's meant to
be machine parseable so other tools[1] can process them after-the-fact.
I would accept a patch for a command like "git svn gc" to deal with
compressing them.

[1] - as far as I know there are none

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Eric Wong