On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:05:36AM +0100, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () Thien-Thi Nguyen
> () Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:58:26 +0100
>
>I had delayed looking at the new generated-by-Perl IXIN stuff because
>of CVS antipathy. Now theres no more excuse. :-D
>
> It seems i spoke too soon. The "svn co" command consumed all disk space
> and memory on my computer before exiting failurefully. As a workaround,
> i installed git-svn and did:
>
> $ mkdir texinfo
> $ cd texinfo
> $ git svn init svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texinfo
> $ git svn fetch
>
> which required about seven hours and five manual restarts to complete
> (interruptions were due to connection timeout), w/ a 1.3GiB footprint.
>
> So, now i see a bunch of directories many of them named "texinfo".
> Which one contains the IXIN hacking?
In fact you only need the trunk branch. With svn that would be:
svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texinfo/trunk texinfo
It is much less than 1.3GiB (for a fresh checkout):
$ du -shx texinfo
225Mtexinfo
It takes some time to checkout, though (real2m31.220s in my case).
Maybe git is much larger because it holds all the history, and not only
the last version as in svn.
--
Pat
