Repo conversion troubles.

[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>:
> > 12 hours from remote I guess? The subversion repository is available through rsync so you can create a local mirror to work from (we've been doing that at suse for years) 
> 
> I'm saying I see rsync plus local checkout take 10-12 hours.  I asked Jason
> about this and his response was basically "Well...we don't do that often."

Isn't that a local checkout *of top-level of the repository*, i.e. 
checking out all branches and tags?  Which is indeed something developers 
would never normally do - they'd just check out the particular branches 
they're working on.

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Joseph S. Myers
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