> Patrick Mézard <pmezard@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Tags conversion may be really slow. It can be disabled with something like:
>
> --config convert.svn.tags=

Excellent tip: that brought the conversion time down from 12+ hours to 7
minutes :-)  Perhaps a corresponding warning could be added to hg
convert -h output?

Thanks.
        Rainer