Thank you!
It will be a while before we have an answer, but we won't forget...
-K
Buddy Burden <buddy@barefoot.net> writes:
> Karl,
>
> > Appreciate the efforts,
>
> Well, I hope to be soon appreciating _your_ efforts, if you can shed some
> light on this. :-)
>
> Okay, in my attempt to shrink it down somewhat, I have learned the following
> things:
>
> 1) It has nothing to do with the total size of the source. In my first
> attempt to prune, it ceased failing after reducing the size from 852M to
> 808M, but then when working with a different tree it failed at 542M.
>
> 2) It has nothing to do with the depth of the directory tree.
>
> 3) It has nothing to do with the length of file names or total path names.
>
> 4) It *does* have to do with total number of files. However, there are some
> oddities here: changing the directory structure, or once even the top
> directory *name*, can influence the exact number of files which cause it to
> crap out. Happily, given a static directory tree, it does seem consistently
> reproducible.
>
> Perhaps that's enough right there to trigger an "aha!", but JIC ...
>
> > Best thing is to post it at a URL somewhere, then post the URL.
>
> Grab this:
>
> http://office.barefoot.net/temp/svn_problem.tgz
>
> This includes the following things:
>
> A) A cvs/ directory containing the CVS sources to be converted by the
> rebuild script. (This is the actual code I'm using, as it happens to be
> mine personally.)
>
> B) A repos.tmpl/ directory containing the skeletal layout of the repository.
>
> C) A website/ directory which would normally contain the source I'm trying to
> import. It now contains a single directory with a script called
> make_tests.pl. Modify and rerun this script to control exactly how many test
> files you start off with (in hindsight, perhaps I should have made it take an
> argument; sorry). On my system, it craps out at exactly 158 files, but you
> may need to adjust.
>
> D) A build.svn/ directory containing the rebuild script. In order to test,
> edit this file and look for CHANGE; modify those things to fit your system.
> I tried to comment this script as much as possible. It's a ksh script, but
> I'm sure you could hack it into a bash or sh script if you need to.
>
> Hope this helps demonstrate the problem sufficiently! Let me know if I can
> provide any further info, and thanx a bunch for taking the time to look at
> it.
>
>
> -- Buddy
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Received on Tue Jan 13 21:01:54 2004