Repo conversion troubles.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> 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.

It is.  I have to check out all tags and branches to validate the conversion.
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