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Post by pwmanagerdied » Fri, Oct 23, 2009, 1:09 AM UTC

bendin wrote: post #418

barrybe wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think if he tried today he'd be much more successful. I remember using git-svn a year ago, and it had the problem where it would re-checkout every single file for every branch point, because SVN doesn't really keep track of branch points; a branch is just a "svn copy" of the root dir. These days, git-svn is much smarter about recognizing a SVN branch, so it doesn't have to re-checkout the whole world.

I recently (less than a month ago) used git-svn to do a conversion of https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson and discovered a few things. The git-svn clone was not made from the canonical hudson repository, but rather from a svnsync clone hosted on localhost accessed through the svn:// protocol. Nevertheless, the conversion took about three weeks on a 2.6 GHz Core2. There seems to be a memory leak in git-svn. The size o…