If you do that, then the changes do not sync to github, and there's a 99% chance that the next time a change is seen by the mirroring process (or by the hourly cron that updates all the svn->git mirrors) the same memory leak would happen.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Scott Blum <dragonsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dumb question, but searching around suggests that git-svn can be killed > and then resumed with `git svn fetch`. Shouldn't that resolve any > process-level memory leak? > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Michael McCandless < > luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > >> Hello devs, >> >> The infra team has notified us (Lucene/Solr) that in 26 days our >> git-svn mirror will be turned off, because running it consumes too >> many system resources, affecting other projects, apparently because of >> a memory leak in git-svn. >> >> Does anyone know of a link to this git-svn issue? Is it a known >> issue? If there's something simple we can do (remove old jars from >> our svn history, remove old branches), maybe we can sidestep the issue >> and infra will allow it to keep running? >> >> Or maybe someone in the Lucene/Solr dev community with prior >> experience with git-svn could volunteer to play with it to see if >> there's a viable solution, maybe with command-line options e.g. to >> only mirror specific branches (trunk, 5.x)? >> >> Or maybe it's time for us to switch to git, but there are problems >> there too, e.g. we are currently missing large parts of our svn >> history from the mirror now and it's not clear whether that would be >> fixed if we switched: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10828 Also, because we >> used to add JAR files to svn, the "git clone" would likely take >> several GBs unless we remove those JARs from our history. >> >> Or if anyone has any other ideas, we should explore them, because >> otherwise in 26 days there will be no more updates to the git mirror >> of Lucene and Solr sources... >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mike McCandless >> >> http://blog.mikemccandless.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> >
