I have a big repository, 100,000+ revisions with a very high branching factor. The initial fetch of the full SVN repository using git-svn has been running for around 2 months and it's only up to revision 60,000. Is there any way to speed this thing up?
I'm already regularly killing and restarting the fetch due to git-svn leaking memory like a sieve. The transfer is occurring over the local LAN, so link speed shouldn't be an issue. The repository is on a dedicated machine backed by dedicated fiber channel arrays so the server should have plenty of oomph. The only other thing that I can think of is do the clone from a local copy of the SVN repository.
What have other people done in similar circumstances?
Apparently there is no good answer. Some work is being done on git-fast-import but it isn't ready for prime time yet. They are still trying to figure out how to detect and represent 'svn cp' actions. The one bright spot is that someone on the list came up with an optimization for git-svn that seems to have made a big impact.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168718