hi, importing the pike-svn repo into git took 3 days. git-svn seems to have some issues there, as the process got slower and slower (and in the end git-svn had more than 300MB in ram (allocated 1GB))
the resulting repo had 178645 objects and a size of 1178MB. git-svn allocates another 1.5GB for statusinformation on each branch. (and because tags are branches, the 1729 tags result in as many branches) however, after packing, the resulting repo ocupies a mere 44MB!!! that alone is a good reason for me to use git, as it it gives me the whole repo in the same space as the checkout of a single revision in svn. you can clone this repo from http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/pike-svn.git the svn import info is removed from that repo. when we switch to svn i'll try to make a repo available that contains the svn info to spare anyone else who wants ot use git-svn a 3day import. greetings, martin.