Help! repo conversion

[Lele Gaifax]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond.org> writes:

    Andrew> (lele cc'ed incase he has any insights)

Not needed, I'm subscribed to hg ML. But please, mentioning "tailor"
on subject line correctly hints my pycmail email rules :)

    Andrew> This is currently running:

    Andrew> tailor.py -b -s darcs -t hg -R /home/andrew/repo.darcs
    Andrew> --subdir . -D repo.hg

    Andrew> The subdir . is required to get the result in the top of
    Andrew> repo.hg, rather than a subdir. But using --subdir . also
    Andrew> has the effect of taking forever. Its been flat out 100%
    Andrew> cpu (running darcs) for an hour now (and this is a fast
    Andrew> x86_64 machine). Looking at the tailor code reveals:

    Andrew>         if subdir == '.': # This is currently *very* slow,
    Andrew> compared to the darcs get # below!

    Andrew> (Tailor uses darcs get if subdir != '.', which does indeed
    Andrew> complete in a timely manner)

I'm afraid I cannot help here: I already chatted on the problem with
some darcs developer, but as of now I got no solutions. That's why I
implemented that double way of fetching initial version.

BTW, you get the same behaviour also on darcs own repository...

The fact is: get more or less takes a snapshot of current repository,
while pull tries the usual darcs magic of swapping patches at will.

    Andrew> This occasional and unpredictable 'takes forever' darcs
    Andrew> behaviour is the main reason I am looking at Hg as an
    Andrew> alternative :)

Eh, darcs is the best around for almost anything, but it has a few
dark corners that are ruining its reputation :|

    Andrew> I guess I'll leave it overnight and see what
    Andrew> transpires. Otherwise, I guess I could not use --subdir
    Andrew> . and just move the files up one directory after the
    Andrew> conversion.

Oh yes, and darcs should be able to keep up fetching upstream changes
honoring the renames! :-)

ciao, lele.
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