Les Mikesell wrote:

[dd]

> > Does it mean that on a 32bit OS I am stuck hopelessly? A dump/load
> > cycle will eventually fail as the repository grows beyond a certain
> > size?
> 
> A 'real' svnadmin dump would let you specify revision ranges so you
> could do it incrementally but cvs2svn doesn't have an equivalent
> option other than splitting out directories. Perhaps someone could do
> the load on a larger 64-bit machine and dump it back in smaller ranges
> if you can't find a better way to split it.

I have also noticed that the --deltas option dramatically decreases
the dump size (it becomes megabytes instead of gigabytes).
Unfortunately cvs2svn cannot do deltas.  I will try to load on a
64-bit machine and dump it back with the --deltas option.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru

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