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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jim Fulton wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Was this with the file-system back end?  What is your current system?

Yes, and it is a 3 GHz dual processor (although I don't think it uses
two processors) with 1GB RAM (I believe RAM size matters a lot for
this process; the older machine has 512MB).

Regards,
Martin