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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:06:19
Message-Id: 20110823023820.GA2654@comet
In Reply to: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 19:28 Mon 22 Aug , Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > In terms of the tree size question, we were going to produce a
3 > zero-history point at the switchover time, and offer a graftable pack
4 > with all prior history. This got the initial packfile down under 80MiB
5 > (with the historical packfile being ~900MiB).
6
7 On this note, how in the world do you do that? There appears to be
8 plenty of documentation on splicing things back together but none on how
9 to split them in the first place.
10
11 --
12 Thanks,
13 Donnie
14
15 Donnie Berkholz
16 Council Member / Sr. Developer
17 Gentoo Linux
18 Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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