Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
Chad and I have been playing around with a SVN->Git conversion of MediaWiki. After running into some odd issues with git-svn and since it takes around 3 weeks to do a complete git-svn import (with branches) of the MediaWiki SVN repository I'd like to get access to `svnadmin dump' output as run on mayflower. [...]
No answer to your question, but can you estimate how large the git repository will probably be?
The complete conversion with all branches/tags is which goes up until r62638 (Feb 17) is 406MB. You can clone it at http://github.com/mediawiki/mediawiki-svn.
I'll wait till you have sorted out the hiccups :-).
Of course a proper conversion to Git would involve splitting up the repository into logically separate chunks. Grabbing just the data you need (phase3 + a few extensions) would take less space and be faster than with SVN now.
I don't know whether I would want that the former - after a few days with intermittent problems with my InterNet connec- tion I really got to love git's stand-alone approach.
Tim