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From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To: "Geert Bosch" <bosch@adacore.com>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>,
	"Brandon Casey" <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
	"John Dlugosz" <JDlugosz@tradestation.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.usuqfufi1e62zd@balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F4B0DFB-A0A3-45FA-9BB7-801FFD2E8862@adacore.com>

Am 23.04.2009, 20:10 Uhr, schrieb Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>:

>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 13:56, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> If your favorite import tool (*cough* git-svn *cough*) can't use
>> fast-import, and you are importing a large enough repository that
>> this matters to you, use another importer that can use fast-import.
>
> How did you guess? :) You're right of course, except that I can't
> use fast-import AFAIK. The issue is also more general, as the
> same scenario of adding new objects and repacking occurs
> outside the context of git-svn.

If you can't use fast-import for lack of access to the SVN repo, svnsync  
may help with that part. Or easier: ask the admin to upload a dump or  
provide one for download... :-)

-- 
Matthias Andree

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 21:46 dangling commits and blobs: is this normal? John Dlugosz
2009-04-22 15:27 ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 16:53   ` Brandon Casey
2009-04-22 17:39     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 18:15       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-22 19:08         ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 19:45           ` Brandon Casey
2009-04-22 19:58             ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 20:07             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-23 11:51           ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-22 19:14         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 19:26       ` Brandon Casey
2009-04-22 20:00         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 20:05           ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 20:11             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-23 17:43             ` Geert Bosch
2009-04-23 17:56               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-23 18:10                 ` Geert Bosch
2009-04-23 18:17                   ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2009-04-23 18:51               ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 20:15   ` John Dlugosz

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