From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matthias Andree" Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70ACE0502@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <20090422152719.GA12881@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090422200502.GA14304@coredump.intra.peff.net> <064C9132-2E72-4665-A44D-A2F4194DAC2B@adacore.com> <20090423175612.GV23604@spearce.org> <0F4B0DFB-A0A3-45FA-9BB7-801FFD2E8862@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jeff King" , "Nicolas Pitre" , "Brandon Casey" , "John Dlugosz" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Geert Bosch" , "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 23 20:19:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lx3WZ-0004Th-62 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:19:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756886AbZDWSRt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:17:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754394AbZDWSRt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:17:49 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39241 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751212AbZDWSRs (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:17:48 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2009 18:17:47 -0000 Received: from balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de (EHLO balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de) [131.234.21.37] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 23 Apr 2009 20:17:47 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18lk7EVZjslgxBM97nJUgBvbs+1ovtYGpvdKqzoam uKuzkDUWue3IBU In-Reply-To: <0F4B0DFB-A0A3-45FA-9BB7-801FFD2E8862@adacore.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.64 (Win32) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.62 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 23.04.2009, 20:10 Uhr, schrieb Geert Bosch : > > 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