On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 11:55 +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:40, Lachlan Deck <lachlan.deck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Okay, so I'm using git 1.6.2. I assume this is all a 'known issue'. Has > > there been any work / plans towards improving this? > > This can be improved by using svn 1.5's delta feature, however, Eric > (the author of git-svn) does not have the time to do this, and no-one > has stepped up to do this. > A workaround is to not clone from r1 but instead start at a more > recent revision. Fetching over plain svn:// is IME much faster. But let's face it, SVN is no race-horse and was never designed for the case where people like to look at their history much. Developing with a trunk was so painful, people would rather just forget... One workaround is to use SVK to do the initial mirroring, and the --use-svm-mirror flag to convert your SVK mirror path to git. See http://utsl.gen.nz/talks/git-svn/intro.html for a guide for the second part of that. SVK has implemented some of the harder parts of the SVN API to get right, such as request pipelining - see http://code.bestpractical.com/svk/trunk/lib/SVK/Mirror/Backend/SVNRaPipe.pm for how the SVN API "supports" this. As a result of this dedication to the cause, SVK does this part very quickly. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html