Re: svn to git, N-squared?

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

64 files in tmp.
But the SVN repository itself has 411,000 files in it. Split between
two directories.

Ouch. That sounds like it. 

Is there some pack equivalent for svn that I haven't found yet?

Is this literally what SVN does normally? That's just insane. I mean, even 
git tried to at least hash out the files (and yeah, admittedly even that 
worked less well than I was hoping for, but I at least fixed it within 
just a few weeks through the pack mechanism).

Or is that 411,000 files a result of how git-svnimport does things, rather 
than some basic SVN approach to live: does it perhaps end up checking out 
each file under an individual temporary name?

			Linus