Hi, >> The reason being that going from git to subversion there is a >> general increase in redundant data. > > I don't understand? The primary issue is a blob may be repeated in a non-copy operation, requiring its content to be described again. This sort of operation only happens 20% of the time with the ASF repository. We would have to either write out the content again or compute a new delta depending on the target version of the svn dump stream. >> On the other hand, to produce an svn dump stream we may need >> to repeat elements encountered earlier in the fast-export stream. > > What do you mean with this? See above, there was some redundancy in my post. -- David Barr. -- 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