On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:12:59AM -0700, Victor Leschuk wrote:
> I've been playing with git-svn for some time already and as it seems
> to me there are two most important problems which make it hard to use
> in production for large repositories. Very low speed and large memory
> footprint of synchronization with SVN repos (I am talking about clone
> and fetch operations mostly). I was wondering why the git-fast-import
> is not used for these purposes? Are there any serious limitations
> which make it impossible?
The main reason is that git-svn predates the invention of fast-import.
There was an attempt later to make a more "modern" svn interface:
- it would provide a git-remote-helper interface (so you could use
normal clone, fetch, and push with an "svn::" URL rather than a
separate git-svn).
- it would use fast-import for moving data into git
but it was never finished. I don't recall the specific problems offhand.
You can see the remnants in the vcs-svn directory of git, or you might
find discussions by searching the list archive.
-Peff
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