--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Christian Lohmaier <cloph@openoffice.org> wrote:
>
> Well, do some over-the-thumb-maths please and see that this
> approach is doomed. 260000 linear revisions (the "easy part"),
> and you can do 500 in two hours.
> You need around 1040 hours, or more than 40 days to do the
> conversion this way.
>
This is certainly a problem :(. Perhaps it will be faster if
done in the same LAN of the physical repository?
Is the converter that comes with Hg, worse?
> And that is only the time until you very likely hit the
> point where
> the conversion will bail out "sorry, can not deal with
> merges". This
> is insane...
>
It doesn't seem like it will bail out but the script does have
some documented issues:
* no handling of branches
* all commits come from the user running the script
* move operations probably won't appear in the history as such
Nevertheless thanks to Florent for trying and reporting.
cheers,
Pedro.
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