Hi Dimitry, On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:40:36AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> >> $ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T trunk -b branches >> >> takes about half an hour to run, the other command (which I already >> started yesterday) seems to be taking (far) more than a day! > > What version of Git do you use? 1.5.4.5, on Linux. > If you use a version earlier than 1.5.6 > than you can notice *considerable* speed up by upgrading to the latest How much is "considerable"? My import is *still* running. > version of Git. Also, git-svn does not work well on Windows. Cygwin > version is slow due to fork(), and MSYS Git has some other issues with > Perl. So, if you want to convert a huge SVN repo, My svn repo is not huge. 5000 commits, 176MB. > it is better to do on > Linux and using the latest version of Git. Perhaps, running on tmpfs may > speed up the process even more. > >> Therefore, so far, I have not had a chance to run the command to >> completion to see if it gives the desired result. The greatly >> increased tun time also made me suspicious about whether the command >> was going to do the right thing. And, I end up with a lot of strange >> looking tags in the (as yet incompletely) imported tree: >> >> $ git branch -a >> tags/man-pages-2.00 >> tags/man-pages-2.00@117 >> tags/man-pages-2.01 >> tags/man-pages-2.01@145 >> tags/man-pages-2.02 >> tags/man-pages-2.02@184 >> tags/man-pages-2.03 >> tags/man-pages-2.03@232 >> tags/man-pages-2.04 >> tags/man-pages-2.04@283 >> >> What are the @nnn tags about? > > I have never encounted them. Are you sure that you import into a clean > Git repo? Yes. It's a clean repo in a new directory. Cheers, Michael -- 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
