Converted git repository missing 2 years of history

[John Lawlor]

Hi Nicolás,

The missing history was some mistake I made during the conversion.

Note that git-fast-import produces very badly compressed repositories. I
> recommend running 'git gc --aggressive' after converting.


I usually do 'git repack -a -f -d'. What I don't understand is, it may say
'nothing to do'. Then I push the code up to the server (Bit Bucket in my
case). If I go to where the repo is stored on the server, and then do 'git
gc' followed by 'git repack -a -d -f', it repacks the whole repository. I
am not sure why it repacks it on the server, and says 'nothing to do' on
the client. Do you know if there is a way to force it repack the whole
repo? It really helps with performance, I can shave 1GB off the size of the
repository if I can get it to repack the whole thing.

Also, I have one repository which is 5GB in size and imports in 20 minutes.
Then I have one which is 3.4GB in size but takes two hours to import. I
think the reason here is the number of objects. The second one has over 1
million, as it has 17 years of history.

John

On 15 September 2017 at 17:26, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> El 15 sept 2017, a las 13:19, John Lawlor <jk.lawlor at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have converted a large SVN repo to git using svn2git. The repo is 5G on
> disk:
>
> [johnl at pluto:/u01/conversion/tools/bin ]$ du -sh VoltComponents/
> 5.4G    VoltComponents/
> [johnl at pluto:/u01/conversion/tools/bin ]$
>
>
> Note that git-fast-import produces very badly compressed repositories. I
> recommend running 'git gc --aggressive' after converting.
>
> When I push it up to the server, it is only pushing 1.5GB of data, and the
> repository is missing two years of commits.
>
> I am not sure what is happening...
>
>
> Does your converted repository have multiple branches? Are you pushing
> them all? A 'git push' might only push the current branch...
>
> --
> Nicolás
> Award-winning git repo surgeon (?!)
>
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