From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alan Subject: Git Subversion problem Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:40:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 24 18:40:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9m6s-0000MA-GN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:40:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752051AbXAXRk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752056AbXAXRk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:29 -0500 Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:46648 "EHLO clueserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752051AbXAXRk2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:28 -0500 Received: by clueserver.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id A704AF50C92; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clueserver.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A76F508EC for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:40:27 -0800 (PST) X-X-Sender: alan@blackbox.fnordora.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I think I tracked down where my problem with using Git to pull subversion repositories came from. It seems that if the repository has a file larger than what will fit in memory, it does not react well. (Yes, I know that you should not check in huge data files into a repository, but accidents happen and Subversion does not make it easy to remove them.) I can work around the problem at the moment, but it may be something that the person who maintains that chunk of git may want to look at. -- "Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains nothing." - University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark