Converting HUGE (12GB) SVN repo to Hg

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 07:25:23 CDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Philip Pemberton <lists at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>  I'm trying to convert a 12GB (~160,000 commits) Subversion repository to
> Mercurial. The conversion has been running for about 10 hours now, and has
> converted... about 600 commits. This is on a quad-core Intel Q6600 box with
> 4GB of RAM, with the repository svnsync'd into a local directory. Platform
> is Linux x86_64.
>
>  At this rate I'll be here until ((160e3 / 600) * 10) = 2,667 hours, or
> about 111 days if the machine is left running 24/7.
>
>  Is there a faster way to do this?

which tool are you using? are there independant sub-projects in this repository?

Benoit


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