Since dbc6c74d08, git-svn has had
an expensive check for broken symlinks that exist in some
repositories. This leads to a heavy performance hit on
repositories with many empty blobs that are not supposed to be
symlinks.
The workaround is enabled by default; and may be disabled via:
git config svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround false
Reported by Markus Heidelberg.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Broken SVN clients generate empty files with the svn:special set
to '*'. This attempts to denote a symlink pointing to a file
with an empty path (""), which cannot be generated on a POSIX
system.
Thus, we mimic the behavior of svn(1) and create a zero-byte
file in our tree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>