On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 09:46:02AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Thanks. Your description makes sense to me, but I do not have enough
> > git-svn knowledge to know if it covers all intended uses of the flag.
> > Eric?
> >
> > > +--log-window-size=<n>;;
> > > + Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
> > > + The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
> > > + values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
> > > + time. But overly large values may lead to request timeouts.
>
> Overly large values also lead to excessive memory usage. I may have
> only had 256M in my dev machine at the time I added this parameter:
That's probably worth mentioning. Gunnlaugur, any objection to me
amending your commit with:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 64756c9..8b0d3ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
- time. But overly large values may lead to request timeouts.
+ time. But overly large values may lead to higher memory usage and
+ request timeouts.
'clone'::
Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a
?
-Peff
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