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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@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 09:05:49
Message-Id: robbat2-20110823T043131-145103620Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:38:20PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 19:28 Mon 22 Aug , Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 > > In terms of the tree size question, we were going to produce a
4 > > zero-history point at the switchover time, and offer a graftable pack
5 > > with all prior history. This got the initial packfile down under 80MiB
6 > > (with the historical packfile being ~900MiB).
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 It's in the first post on thread 'repo layout & graft / split-history',
11 November 1st, 2010 (git fast-export).
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14 Robin Hugh Johnson
15 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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