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

Mike Hommey wrote:

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

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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.
  

I agree that fast-import is probably ultimately a better solution for 
this, but given that git-svn currently uses the output of every command 
it forks off and that fast-import doesn't seem to give the same output, 
changing git-svn to use fast-import would be a fairly sweeping change 
that I didn't feel comfortable making without a better understanding of 
git-svn.

-Adam