Re: Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git

["Michael Kerrisk" <michael.kerrisk@googlemail.com>]

Hi Dimitry,

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:40:36AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>
>> $ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T trunk -b branches
>>
>> takes about half an hour to run, the other command (which I already
>> started yesterday) seems to be taking (far) more than a day!
>
> What version of Git do you use?

1.5.4.5, on Linux.

> If you use a version earlier than 1.5.6
> than you can notice *considerable* speed up by upgrading to the latest

How much is "considerable"?  My import is *still* running.

> version of Git. Also, git-svn does not work well on Windows. Cygwin
> version is slow due to fork(), and MSYS Git has some other issues with
> Perl. So, if you want to convert a huge SVN repo,

My svn repo is not huge.  5000 commits, 176MB.

> it is better to do on
> Linux and using the latest version of Git. Perhaps, running on tmpfs may
> speed up the process even more.
>
>> Therefore, so far, I have not had a chance to run the command to
>> completion to see if it gives the desired result.  The greatly
>> increased tun time also made me suspicious about whether the command
>> was going to do the right thing.  And, I end up with a lot of strange
>> looking tags in the (as yet incompletely) imported tree:
>>
>> $ git branch -a
>>   tags/man-pages-2.00
>>   tags/man-pages-2.00@117
>>   tags/man-pages-2.01
>>   tags/man-pages-2.01@145
>>   tags/man-pages-2.02
>>   tags/man-pages-2.02@184
>>   tags/man-pages-2.03
>>   tags/man-pages-2.03@232
>>   tags/man-pages-2.04
>>   tags/man-pages-2.04@283
>>
>> What are the @nnn tags about?
>
> I have never encounted them. Are you sure that you import into a clean
> Git repo?

Yes.  It's a clean repo in a new directory.

Cheers,

Michael