Re: [PATCH 0/9] Make git-svn fetch ~1.7x faster

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:46:28PM -0700, Adam Roben wrote:

This patch series makes git-svn fetch about 1.7x faster by reducing the number
of forks/execs that occur for each file retrieved from Subversion. To do so, a
few new options are added to git-cat-file and git-hash-object to allow
continuous input on stdin and continuous output on stdout, so that one instance
of each of these commands can be kept running for the duration of the fetch.

You don't need to do this to avoid forks. Just use git-fast-import
instead.

Mike