Mercurial repository set up for GCC that mirrors SVN

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Wed May 9 02:22:00 GMT 2007


On 5/8/07, Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> wrote:
> > git-svnimport will not pack incrementally as it runs, so it might get
> > pretty large.  git-svn offers and incremental repack every x commits
> > (I chose 1000) and that did wonders for the import time for me.
> > Otherwise it will create a huge number of files before the final pack.
>
> FYI, doing a repack brought the size down from 5.0GB to 266MB.  Aside
> from the question of whether or not it's wise to require users to
> manually pack their repositories, it looks like the git tree is going
> to be about 750MB, which brings it more or less on par with mercurial.
>
> I'm keen to play around with mercurial a bit.  Danny, when is your
> repository going to be publicly available?

I'm converting full history now, it's on revision 10000 :)

It'll probably be a few days before it's done.

(This is because it's an incremental program, and is requesting every
revision one by one. If I did t from an svn dump fle, it would
probably only take a few hours).


>
> Ollie
>



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