Re: cvs2svn: raw or cooked?

Jim Blandy <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com> writes:
> The Red Hat comp-tools repositority is about four gigabytes. And XML
> is renowned for its bloat. So you can expect to see some *very large*
> datasets. But it would compress well... Dia and Gnumeric both use
> compressed XML for their file formats.
>
> Perhaps this could be done in a way that allows one to pipe one
> process to another.

Yah -- there's no need to have the whole 4 gigs in xml at once. Just
one commit at a time.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:09 2006