[Success] (was: hg convert GNU emacs git to mercurial failed.)

[Malcolm Matalka]

Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:
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>    > 39328 * xselect.c (last_event_timestamp): Remove duplicate decl.
>    > abort: Cannot allocate memory
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> I restarted it and finally it worked. Interesting.

This might have been because hg convert tends to use a lot of RAM, but
if you keep on restarting it, it eventually finishes because it doesn't
start from scratch each time.  That is at least what I did when
converting freebsd-ports (svn) to hg.

>
>     1. The original git repo is 742 MB
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>     2. The cloned one (with the hg-git plugin) 885 MB
>
>     3. The converted one 554 MB
>
> The converted one however it not faster, changing to a named branch is
> still slow.
>
> Regards
>
> Uwe Brauer
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