[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jim Fulton wrote:
>    I don't expect that this would be an issue for Python.

Right.

> 2. I initially tried to conver our entire repository, including all
>    branches.  This would have taken days.  I finally decided to just
>    convert our trunk, which took several hours.  The main time
>    sink was in the load step of the conversion process.
> 
>    I suspect that much of the time hit was due to the Berkely DB
>    back end.  I think I've heard that the file-system-based back end
>    is much faster in general.

Dunno. For the Python CVS (which translates into some 40,000 revisions),
on the machine which I was originally using (1GHz Pentium), conversion
took 7h. On my current workstation, it takes a little over an hour.

Regards,
Martin