On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 02:23, Tim Allen <screwtape@froup.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:11:34PM +0200, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
Only if there's a decent Github mirror to fork from, otherwise you're asking people to do a multi-hour operation (I know, because I'm doing it right now) to get a decent git repo,
Last time I tried (perhaps a year ago), a git-svn clone of the Twisted SVN repo took the better part of a week. I seem to recall somebody preparing a tarball of a git-svn-clone'd repository to help people bootstrap, but my clone was already completed at that point so I didn't investigate further.
I update the tarball a few times a year at http://ludios.net/mirror/ - see Twisted-checkout-README.txt for notes. If you do it yourself, keep in mind that git svn clone has to restart at r1 several times, for reasons I don't fully understand (due to partial SVN branches?). A few months back, a branch created by bzr with an svn:mergeinfo property caused it to restart at r1 again. This adds about 27 hours to the git svn clone time, unfortunately. Ivan