I am using the svn2git
tool namely svn-all-fast-export
written by the KDE guys to migrate some repos from SVN to Git. Sources are available at github
In the resulting Git bare folder, there is a file marks-<reponame>
. It contains entries like:
:13 3072a401f97757160dc0943d287328feed97b838
:14 d5f658e7ca286ba4b05ddd28cad1dae486ff5a00
:15 b01559e660078de3c614cdd8a72398d8a6cd74b1
:16 2e4efc6ecbe8cc619f2df403d0ac2664041acbbe
(...)
:18446744073709551613 8f4c22ee321fbb452fede97933ce7078a4fda9ab
:18446744073709551614 339edf4fad5c4ca4a42feaae194c002fac220ead
I don't expect a file like this to remains in that folder.
I have two questions:
- Is it safe to delete it ?
- What is it used for ?