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/sh
# inspired by Python r62868

mkdir temp
cd temp
svnadmin create repo
svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc
export REPO=file://`pwd`/repo
cd wc
mkdir branches trunk tags
svn add *
svn ci -m 'btt'

echo a > trunk/a
svn add trunk/a
svn ci -m 'Add file.'
svn up

svn cp trunk branches/test
svn ci -m 'Branch.'
svn up

cd ..
svn cp -m 'First tag.' $REPO/branches/test@3 $REPO/tags/test-0.1
svn cp -m 'Weird tag.' $REPO/branches/test@3 $REPO/tags/test-0.1/test
svn mv -m 'Fix tag pt 1.' $REPO/tags/test-0.1/test $REPO/tags/test-0.1-real
svn rm -m 'Remove weird.' $REPO/tags/test-0.1
svn mv -m 'Fix tag pt 2.' $REPO/tags/test-0.1-real $REPO/tags/test-0.1

cd ..
svnadmin dump temp/repo > renametagdir.svndump
echo
echo 'Complete.'
echo 'You probably want to clean up temp now.'
echo 'Dump in renametagdir.svndump'
exit 0