How can I rate limit git-svn?

Question

I'm looking to git-svn a large repo on a busy and underpowerd svn server. I would like to tell git-svn to be polite and not lag the server for people doing real work. Can I do this?

Answer 1

One approach might be to run svnsync to create a clone of the whole Subversion repository first, then run git svn against the clone. Alternately, you can use svnadmin dump and svnadmin load (to another machine).

After running git svn clone against the Subversion clone, you may have to tweak the Git repository (specifically the Subversion repository URL) to point to your real Subversion server.