Re: Proposed conversion strategy

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr%thyrsus.com@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:31:55AM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > The conversion from fossil to git (which the most-used git mirror of
> > NetBSD uses) takes nearly twice as long as from CVS->fossil.
> 
> The most annoying aspect for us is that I could never get incremental
> fast-import to work reliable on the git side. Having to write all the
> blobs on every round just for git to drop them as redundant sucks. The
> commits are several order of magnitudes less problematic. Last time I
> tried, git would not find objects it declared as present in its own mark
> file. So if there is anything testing and fixing is mostly needed on the
> git side, it is that.

I'll run some incremental-export tests here.  I've had success in the past
not using mark files but with the new blobs in the stream and using
the magic cookie indicating a branch join. cvs-fast-export does this
and it seens to work.
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