From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-24.4's release Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:54:24 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141014215424.GA17044@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413323694 28695 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2014 21:54:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 23:54:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XeA3K-0008FP-D8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:54:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeA3K-0005Ob-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeA33-0005OM-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeA2z-0004no-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:38922 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeA2z-0004nk-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A220384439; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175380 Archived-At: David Reitter : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond