bzr-svn bug report

[Sebastian Kuzminsky]

Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:35 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> > Hi folks, I'm not subscribed to the list, please cc: me directly.
> >
> > I'm getting errors while trying to make a bzr branch from the trunk of
> > our SVN repository.  The repo has ~10K revisions, the trunk has ~24K
> > files and uses ~1.8 GB (that's including the .svn directories).
> >
> > I'm running 'bzr branch' on the system hosting the svn repo.
> 
> bzr-svn has a bug with memory usage on the initial pull.
> 
> Try doing
> bzr branch -r 500 URL localpath
> then
> cd localpath
> bzr pull -r 1000
> bzr pull -r 1500
> 
> etc.

That worked, thanks!

Took forever (> 1 day) but it did finish successfully.


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Sebastian Kuzminsky
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