Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

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Junio - I suspect "pack-check.c" really shouldn't try to do it as one 
single humungous "SHA1_Update()" call. It showed one bug on PPC, I 
wouldn't be surprised if it's implicated now on some other architecture. 

It used to do it as one big SHA1_Update() call...
 

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Shawn - does the pack-file-windowing thing already change that? I'm too 
lazy to check..

But with the mmap window thing in `next` it does it in window
units only.  Which the user could configure to be huge, or could
configure to be sane.  The default when using mmap() is 32 MiB;
1 MiB when using pread() and git_mmap().

I should also point out that my git-fastimport hack that we used
on the huge Mozilla import may be helpful here.  Its _very_ fast
as it goes right to a pack file, but there's no SVN frontend for
it at this time.

-- 
Shawn.