On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Sep 21 2019, Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 09:49:36AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > >> With the SVN repo going read-only it becomes our fallback plan in case > >> of major unexpected problems. > >> > >> Joseph's recommendation for having the old objects/refs in the new repo > >> makes a lot of sense. So if it works, it's got my support as well. > > > > That potentially (and probably) makes the repository a lot bigger. > > Since all the blobs are identical the overhead will be very small.
Are they though? > There is also the possibility to put the old refs in a different refs > namespace so that they are not cloned by default. Yeah, that is a good point (and a good idea), thanks. Segher