From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: irc usage.. Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 20:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060520203911.GI6535@nowhere.earth> <446F95A2.6040909@gentoo.org> <446FA262.7080900@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Yann Dirson , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 22 06:00:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi1aT-0004cq-RF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 06:00:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751569AbWEVD7v (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 23:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751580AbWEVD7u (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 23:59:50 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58597 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569AbWEVD72 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 23:59:28 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4M3xOtH015671 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 21 May 2006 20:59:25 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k4M3xNxI014956; Sun, 21 May 2006 20:59:24 -0700 To: Donnie Berkholz In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.74__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 21 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok. It's still converting (that's a big archive), but it has passed the > cvsps stage without errors for me, and the conversion so far seems ok. But > it has only gotten to > > Author: vapier 2002-09-23 12:32:42 > Changed GPL to GPL-2 in LICENSE and updated SRC_URI to use mirror: > > so it has converted only slightly more than the first two years of > history in the roughly 30 minutes I've let it run. So it will take several > hours. Btw, trying this import (which got interrupted by a thunderstorm and one of our first power failures in a long time - just a few seconds, but enough to power off everything but my laptops) it became very obvious that "git cvsimport" really _really_ should re-pack the archive every once in a while. The old "repack every month or so" approach doesn't work that well when you try to import several years of history in a few hours. Now, you can just repack after the whole thing is done (it will probably take no more than ~15 minutes or so), but it would probably be best if the import script itself decided to repack every once in a while just to avoid wasting a lot of diskspace _during_ the import itself. So this isn't so much a correctness issue as a "avoid wasting time and space" issue, but still.. Linus