On Feb 11, 2017, at 23:12, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2017-2-12 12:07 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> The mega $Id$ removal commit also exposed a limitation of the GitHub >> git-to-svn gateway, which we are using on our server in the mprsyncup >> script. I reported the limitation to GitHub and they said they would look >> into it but I don't know if they've fixed it. I believe we can avoid >> triggering this limitation again by not modifying too many files in a single >> commit. If we hit the limitation again, manual intervention is required to >> throw away the Subversion working copy on the server, and then after the new >> working copy is checked out the portindexes get regenerated, which takes >> hours; I want to avoid going through all that hassle ever again. > > This at least could be avoided by checking out directly from git, I presume?
Right, the mprsyncup script just has a lot of svn specifics in it that we haven't tried to eliminate yet so it was easier to use the git-to-svn bridge.
