On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 20:01 -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 14:38 -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Guys, if you want, i can populate it with my git-svn clone, which has > > > > a svn root id of ssh://gcc.gnu.org//svn/gcc (IE the proper root if you > > > > wanted to be able to dcommit), and has all branches (but no tags). > > > > > > Sure, thanks. Go on! Harvey knows git-svn better than I do, and > > > may have additional tips for you. > > > > > > Harvey, what version of git-svn is required to get the more compact > > > *cough*sane*cough* metadata format? > > > > > > > FWIW, i used git 1.5.5rc to build the repo. I originally started with > > tags, and it used the new 'rev_map" format, but even in rev_map > > format, the metadata for tags was about 3 gigs. > > Really? When I add up all the metadata in my clone for the tags it's > less than 50 MB...where is all of your space taken up?
in .git/svn/tags The .rev_map files are small (~4k, iirc), there are larger files in each dir named "index". You have all 800+ tags in less than 50 meg metadata?