On 3 September 2012 12:09, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3 September 2012 12:01,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 3 September 2012 10:19, Ryan Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Why isn't git.freebsd.org a straight "git svn clone" ? AFAIK that isn't 
>>>>> broken.
>>>>
>>>> Well, let's put it this way: I started a git svn clone of the src
>>>> repository on Aug 28.  It's still going.  And I'm only creating a very
>>>> small subset of the branches in the repo.
>>>
>>> I've done the same and it only took me a few hours although the ports
>>> repo took a few days.
>>
>> Did you try to preserve the full history in the git version?  I'm not
>> familiar with git clone, but when I've made a git copy of an svn repo
>> for uses at work (both of freebsd.org any $WORK's repo) it took two to
>> three days just to fetch the portion of the revisions that were for
>> head/current.
>>
>> A few hours sounds too short.  The three-four days since Aug 28 sounds
>> normal to me.
>
> I have the complete history of HEAD from revision r1 to r240065. I
> don't have other branches.

another thought: even if it does take this long, it should be a one
time conversion cost. cloning the repo should not take that long, and
a "git svn rebase" on a cron job shouldn't take that long either.


-- 
Eitan Adler
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