Re: Emacs-24.4's release

[Eric S. Raymond]

David Reitter <address@hidden>:
> Will there be a mapping that aligns rev-ids from the old official
> git mirror to the new git repository?

I could construct one, but this is not a request that has come up
before.  It would require a significant amount of new work.

> I tried loading the Emacs repository into reposurgeon.  I ran out of
> time/disk space - can you comment on how large the temporary
> fast-export file is, and how long it takes to export it?

It's bloody huge and it takes forever.

My full conversion runs take about 10 hours on a dual-core 2.66Ghz
machine, and I bought a terabyte drive so I wouldn't run out of space
while doing them.

I should have more exact numbers for you in nine hours or so.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>