Re: irc usage..

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Ok. It's still converting (that's a big archive), but it has passed the 
cvsps stage without errors for me, and the conversion so far seems ok. But 
it has only gotten to 

	Author: vapier <vapier>  2002-09-23 12:32:42
	Changed GPL to GPL-2 in LICENSE and updated SRC_URI to use mirror:

so it has converted only slightly more than the first two years of 
history in the roughly 30 minutes I've let it run. So it will take several 
hours.

Btw, trying this import (which got interrupted by a thunderstorm and one 
of our first power failures in a long time - just a few seconds, but 
enough to power off everything but my laptops) it became very obvious that 
"git cvsimport" really _really_ should re-pack the archive every once in a 
while.

The old "repack every month or so" approach doesn't work that well when 
you try to import several years of history in a few hours.

Now, you can just repack after the whole thing is done (it will probably 
take no more than ~15 minutes or so), but it would probably be best if the 
import script itself decided to repack every once in a while just to avoid 
wasting a lot of diskspace _during_ the import itself.

So this isn't so much a correctness issue as a "avoid wasting time and 
space" issue, but still..

			Linus