Git mirroring halted for freebsd-base

[Ulrich Spörlein]

2016-12-03 18:21 GMT+01:00 Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org>:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:42:56PM +0100, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote:
>> 2016-12-02 11:07 GMT+01:00 Ulrich Sp??rlein <uqs at freebsd.org>:
>> > The conversion process started chewing up 100% cpu without making much progress, first attempts to rectify this have failed.
>> >
>> > The svn2git conversion and pushes to github have been halted. Pushes to bitbucket also have been halted (we're reaching the 2GB limit imposed by bitbucket).
>> >
>> > I'll update this thread in about 24h.
>> > Uli
>>
>> Service is fully restored now for the github mirror, sorry for the downtime.
>> Bitbucket will stop working soon because of the size limitations.
>> Speak up if you require this mirror to be kept up-to-date.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Uli
>
> Looks like it might be easier for some downstream projects to fully
> recreate their ports repositories from scratch than to try to merge from
> upstream.

What are you referring to here?

> What caused the issue? What is going to be done to prevent it from
> happening again?

I have no root cause, other than bitbucket changing permissions and
somehow git ending up using 100% CPU for most of the operations.