git-svn: replace .rev_db with a more space-efficient .rev_map format
Migrations are done automatically on an as-needed basis when new
revisions are to be fetched. Stale remote branches do not get
migrated, yet.
However, unless you set noMetadata or useSvkProps it's safe to
just do:
find $GIT_DIR/svn -name '.rev_db*' -print0 | xargs rm -f
to purge all the old .rev_db files.
The new format is a one-way migration and is NOT compatible with
old versions of git-svn.
This is the replacement for the rev_db format, which was too big
and inefficient for large repositories with a lot of sparse history
(mainly tags).
The format is this:
- 24 bytes for every record,
* 4 bytes for the integer representing an SVN revision number
* 20 bytes representing the sha1 of a git commit
- No empty padding records like the old format
- new records are written append-only since SVN revision numbers
increase monotonically
- lookups on SVN revision number are done via a binary search
- Piping the file to xxd(1) -c24 is a good way of dumping it for
viewing or editing, should the need ever arise.
As with .rev_db, these files are disposable unless noMetadata or
useSvmProps is set.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>