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Re: cvs2svn patch in the works...

From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin_at_dberlin.org>
Date: 2002-10-24 17:50:35 CEST

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 03:35 AM, Greg Stein wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:05:54AM +0200, Branko Cibej wrote:
>> ...
>> 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.
>
> Right. Hooks aren't run, which could potentially have removed logs.
>
>> Shouldn't cvs2svn have at least an option to remove the unused log
>> files
>> after every commit?
>
> Heh. Funny you mention that. I think that was one of the features of
> Daniel's big cvs2svn patch.

No, no, i had a background thread in subversion itself that did this.
:)
Remember, the "threads aren't portable, so we can't do it that way"
discussion?
Then of course, we got into the discussion about someone actually
wanting these damn huge logs (god knows who these people are who care
about fault tolerance. They should be shot. :P).

> But I think it wasn't optional or somesuch. Damn
> senility is getting to me :-)

>
> An option to toss them sounds quite fine. Maybe every N commits.
>
> Cheers,
> -g

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