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From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Speed of conversion from Subversion repository to Git
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:17:07 -0800
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:05, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to convert the YaST Subversion repository into a Git variant on my
> system. Unfortunately, a command like "svn2git
> http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/" does not finish this attempt after 1,5 days
> (> 715:13.24 CPU time) here. I would appreciate suggestions for improvements of
> the execution speed.
> (Renicing of the process "git-svn" does not help to increase its processor
> utilisation in noticeable ways.)
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>

We're in the process of converting to Git at work, and I've found that
svn-all-fast-export was the best option for us.  git-svn's behavior of
a branch's entire history every time it found a new branch (even
though it has already seen 3/4 of the revisions involved) caused it to
be far too slow for our needs.  Admittedly, this was ~1 year ago that
I tried git-svn to do a test conversion, and things might have
improved since then.

svn-all-fast-export does require access to the raw repository, instead
of just (http|svn|svn+ssh):// access, but it does allow you to split
out one SVN "repository" into multiple Git repositories in one go.

-Jacob