From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: Re: synchronizing incremental git changes to cvs Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:29:22 -0400 Message-ID: <1148315362.29228.27.camel@dv> References: <87mzdcjqey.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <873bf3jy2t.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 22 18:30:52 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 1FiDIa-0003Y0-6b for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 18:30:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750971AbWEVQaZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 12:30:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750974AbWEVQaZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 12:30:25 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:56286 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750971AbWEVQaY (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 12:30:24 -0400 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FiDIU-0001TZ-Sn for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:30:23 -0400 Received: from proski by dv.roinet.com with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FiDHW-0006kN-RZ; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:29:22 -0400 To: Jim Meyering In-Reply-To: <873bf3jy2t.fsf@rho.meyering.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 (2.6.1-3) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, Jim! On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 15:40 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Sun, 21 May 2006, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > >> Why am I interested? I want to switch the development of GNU coreutils > >> from cvs to git. I believe you have a very good reason to talk to decision makers in FSF. Savannah is very poorly maintained, and I actually took one of my projects (Orinoco driver) to SourceForge Subversion. If losing a Linux driver is next to nothing, losing GNU coreutils is a big deal for the GNU development site. You are likely to be heard if you request git support. > I would also like to continue making the repository > >> available via cvs, for the sake of continuity. At worst, I can always > >> cut the CVS cord, but that's a last resort. Subversion is as easy as CVS for potential users, but it has a useful "log" command if nothing else. It also have real changesets, which means no more guesswork when moving changes back and forth. > > If you only want to make a cvs repository available for tracking the > > project, git-cvsserver is what you want. It is even faster than the > > original cvs... > > That might work if I had sufficient access to the system hosting the > public CVS repository. But there are restrictions (like no ssh access). > Currently I rsync the master repo to an intermediate site, from which > it is periodically pulled by savannah. Paranoia on both sides. > > If I end up leaving savannah, can someone propose a good site, > i.e., secure, yet with git and rsync access? Sorry, I don't know any free git hosters, but here's what you can do: 1) Pressure Savannah to support git 2) Use arch on Savannah 3) Move to Subversion on SourceForge, GNA.org or Berlios and use git-svn -- Regards, Pavel Roskin