> > [ snip lots of helpful comments from various people ] > I just wanted to say thanks to Linus and Junio and everyone who commented, I think I have a much more workable solution now. With my brute-force remove and re-add everything script the times for import looked like this: Importing /compile/co/RELENG_4 (no changes): svk import: 166.86 seconds git: 455.82 seconds Importing /compile/co/RELENG_6: svk import: 203.69 seconds git: 796.48 seconds Importing /compile/co/HEAD: svk import: 243.90 seconds git: 837.13 seconds Ok, so I remembered wrong, git was only 4x slower. Still, I knew it could do better than that... After transplanting the .git directory from 3 cloned repositories checked out to the appropriate branch into the CVS checkout directories, priming them with a 'git status', and using the git ls-file | git update-index trick followed by commit -a, here are the revised times: # On branch cvs_RELENG_4 nothing to commit (working directory clean) git: 67.65 seconds Created commit 106bc0b: Import 20070730 snapshot 7 files changed, 259 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) Git repository at /compile/co/RELENG_6/src updated git: 62.02 seconds Created commit 776031b: Import 20070730 snapshot 86 files changed, 10929 insertions(+), 587 deletions(-) [snip lots of lines for added files] Git repository at /compile/co/HEAD/src updated git: 61.77 seconds _MUCH_ better. I knew it had to be capable of faster :-) Again, thanks for all the help. I look forward to seeing what else git can do! Craig - 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