From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
To: Robert Zeh <robert.a.zeh@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git svn .git/svn/*/index files taking up huge amounts of disk space
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:10:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eaa105840907181110q416a9dd0j989a63eedd9b15ca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CFF1FF99-9237-4C89-BB2D-66F82CF683B1@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Robert Zeh wrote:
> What are the index files under .git/svn used for? Am I doing anything
> wrong? Can the index files under .git/svn be safely removed? My brief look
> at git-svn.perl makes me think that they are temporary, but I'm not sure.
The index files are used to keep track of the commits that came from
svn, so that git-svn rebase knows where to start from (either when
committing or when doing a fetch from svn).
Unless you used the --no-metadata switch, the files under .git/svn can
be safely removed (at the cost of performance when operating a branch
that has had its index removed).
Peter Harris
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2009-07-18 14:58 git svn .git/svn/*/index files taking up huge amounts of disk space Robert Zeh
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