[Savannah-cvs] [58] Update Subversion import recipe and docs.

[Bob Proulx]

Revision: 58
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=58
Author:   rwp
Date:     2013-10-28 20:54:47 +0000 (Mon, 28 Oct 2013)
Log Message:
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Update Subversion import recipe and docs.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/AdminSvnImport.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/AdminSvnImport.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/AdminSvnImport.mdwn     2013-10-28 04:55:51 UTC (rev 57)
+++ trunk/sviki/AdminSvnImport.mdwn     2013-10-28 20:54:47 UTC (rev 58)
@@ -5,15 +5,17 @@
 You need to ask the project developers to create an SVN dump as
 explained at [[SvnImportExistingRepo]].
 
-Once the user has provided it, login at Savannah. Since the process is
-usually long with lots of output, it's recommended to start it in a
-screen or redirect as below, etc.:
+Once the user has provided it, login at Savannah, then use this recipe
+as a guideline to import the project.
 
     ssh vcs
+    screen
     cd /root/vcs-imports
     wget -nv http://url/to/theirproject.dump.bz2
     proj=THEIRPROJECT
-    bzcat theirproj.dump.bz2 | svnadmin load /srv/svn/$proj/ 
>&/tmp/svimport.out
+    bzcat theirproj.dump.bz2 | svnadmin load /srv/svn/$proj/ 
>/tmp/$proj.svimport.out 2>/tmp/$proj.svimport.err
+    tail /tmp/$proj.svimport.err
+    tail /tmp/$proj.svimport.out
     rm theirproj.dump.bz2
     chmod g+w -R /srv/svn/$proj/db/re*
 
@@ -22,3 +24,11 @@
 direct tar is not recommended because we may not be using the same
 versions of SVN, and sometimes the format changes with the new versions
 of SVN.
+
+The subversion svnadmin load of a thousand version is machine
+intensive and time consuming.  A typical project might load at the
+rate of one version per six seconds.  Meaning that this import might
+easily take several hours to load on a project with any significant
+history.  Planning accordingly by running the task under a screen
+session so that it can complete even if your connection to it is
+dropped is a good idea.