kfogel@collab.net writes:
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@bigfoot.com> writes:
> > OK, cvs2svn didn't fail this time, I just ran out of disk space :-(
> > I've made some space, and started it again. (41000 revs and counting)
> >
> > This is going to be a real problem for people with large repos, since
> > the dump-file contains a full copy of every revision of every file,
> > which is going to be huge.
> >
> > Perhaps cvs2svn should be checkpointable in some way? Would it be
> > enough to split the cvs2svn-data.*revs files at suitable places and
> > run pass 4 & 5 multiple times?
>
> Hmmm. I think I'd rather offer an option to split the dumpfile, which
> is an entity people may know how to work with anyway. You give it N,
> it writes out dumpfiles of N revisions at a time, on successive
> invocations.
That would work.
> (But, that's not to be tackled until after all functionality is in,
> IMHO.)
Yup. I'm interested to see what happens once cvs2svn has branch & tag
support again (I suspect my disk will be too small again ;-)
Robert
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Received on Thu May 22 01:17:32 2003