svnwrap: use custom StringIO class in get_file() The wrappers were calling ra.get_file() with a cStringIO object. Empirically, svn 1.7.5 is writing 16kB blocks to the stream object, and cStringIO reallocates its internal buffer and doubles its size whenever it is filled. With large committed files this requires two large memory blocks at the same time. SimpleStringIO implements the mimimum StringIO interface used by ra.get_file() but instead stores all the blocks and "join" them at the end. It means more fragmentation but requires only one large block, without overallocation. Also, 16kB blocks should be friendly to most allocators. In practice, this simple change let me convert a revision containing multiple moderately large files, the largest being around 450MB, with a 32-bits Windows setup, python 2.7, swig svn 1.7.5, in stupid mode, while it was previously aborting with "not enough memory". The same revision still fails in replay mode.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Generate branchtagcollision.svndump
#
# Generates an svn repository with a branch and a tag that have the same name.


mkdir temp
cd temp

svnadmin create testrepo
svn checkout file://`pwd`/testrepo client

cd client
mkdir trunk
mkdir branches
mkdir tags

svn add trunk branches tags
svn commit -m "Initial commit"

echo "fileA" >> trunk/fileA
svn add trunk/fileA
svn commit -m "Added fileA"

svn cp trunk branches/A
svn commit -m "added branch"

echo "fileB" >> trunk/fileB
svn add trunk/fileB
svn commit -m "Added fileB"

svn cp trunk tags/A
svn commit -m "added bad tag"

cd ..
svnadmin dump testrepo > ../branchtagcollision.svndump