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From: Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@sbox.tugraz.at>
Subject: Re: Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git
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* Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> wrote:

> But, is it going to make this much difference to the run time?  By
> now, the import using
>
> $ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T
> trunk/man-pages -b branches
>
> has been running for over 2 days (and I still don't know if it will
> give the layout I want), and seems to be slowing down exponentially as
> it gets further along in the import process, so at this rate it looks
> like it would take several more days to complete, whereas

git-svn conversions are _much_ faster here if done on tmpfs with
occasional git gc runs (in parallel).

May be the fault of the xfs.

cu,
michael
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