From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Packard Subject: Re: several quick questions Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:27 -0800 Message-ID: <1139945967.4341.71.camel@evo.keithp.com> References: <43F20532.5000609@iaglans.de> <87k6bxvmj6.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <1139943349.4341.66.camel@evo.keithp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xaZ0LGCKEh925SYgSELd" Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Carl Worth , Nicolas Vilz 'niv' , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 14 20:40:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F961R-0004Bn-5G for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:39:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422743AbWBNTje (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:39:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422762AbWBNTje (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:39:34 -0500 Received: from home.keithp.com ([63.227.221.253]:21767 "EHLO keithp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422743AbWBNTjd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:39:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C378E13002D; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from keithp.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (keithp.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18984-02; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by keithp.com (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 68A2713002C; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from evo.keithp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE7E14001; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from keithp by evo.keithp.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F961K-0005SI-10; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:30 -0800 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --=-xaZ0LGCKEh925SYgSELd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:04 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Try doing that on a big project, and it will just kill you. You've also=20 > lost the "top-of-branch" info, but if you're just tracking some other=20 > tree, that's likely not an issue. I was validating the cvs import by comparing every tagged version. Trust me, the git tree-rewriting stage was somewhat faster than the CVS checkout of the same content. And, as an egg, one often prefers BFI to finesse. I had trouble figuring out precisely what sequence of commands were needed to make git-reset --hard happy with existing bits in the directory. =20 --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-xaZ0LGCKEh925SYgSELd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD8jHvQp8BWwlsTdMRApJoAKCfP2ko3R6/z7gDLFCRe/nXzk6o2QCfdM3V Oy/t1PysdtWi9eX0Tq9WQ0E= =k5MA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xaZ0LGCKEh925SYgSELd--