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Document git-svn fetch --log-window-size parameter
The --log-window-size parameter to git-svn fetch is undocumented. Minimally describe what it does and why the user might change it. Signed-off-by: Gunnlaugur Þór Briem <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
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--log-window-size=<n>;;
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Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
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The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
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values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
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time. But overly large values may lead to higher memory usage and
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request timeouts.
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'clone'::
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Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a
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directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it;

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