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Re: cvs2svn patch in the works...

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2002-10-24 08:05:54 CEST

Greg Stein wrote:

>>So much for Greg. At least branch and tag conversion works now. :-)
>>Don't worry, I'm sure Mark will get around to moving those hashes elsewhere.
>>
[skip arguments about why size matters]

Woah, smileys don't seem to mean much these days. :-)

>Because the patch breaks the multi-pass concept, I don't believe it should
>be applied. It is way cool that it solves the branches and tags, but I would
>suggest providing a patch which adds some of the basic substrate first. Then
>fix up the in-core data thing, and provide another patch on top of that.
>
Just for the record: of course I agree that we shouldn't gratuitiously
burn memory.

Or disk space, for that matter. One of the fairly bad side-effects is
that during repository conversion, the BDB log files aren't removed.
Shouldn't cvs2svn have at least an option to remove the unused log files
after every commit?

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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