From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Peter Baumann <Peter.B.Baumann@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-show --stat on first commit
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:42:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061121184238.GC22283@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061121183853.GA61605@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:11:19PM +0100, Peter Baumann wrote:
> > And I think handling this behaviour as a config option is the right thing,
> > because most of the time if someone imports a project into git he
> > will import the whole history, especially if he is using one of the
> > cvs/svn importers. A "halfway import" as seen in the kernel repo is a
> > special case and it is unlikely seen again.
>
> Not all projects run on a public VCS. Hell, not all projects run on a
> VCS at all. And in the CVS case, you don't always have enough access
> to actually download the repository, which afaik is needed for
> importing.
There is a tool floating around the 'net that will download
a CVS repository and recreate the ,v files locally for you.
cvssuck appears to be its name:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cvssuck/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 13:41 git-show --stat on first commit Andy Parkins
2006-11-21 14:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-21 14:09 ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-21 16:08 ` Peter Baumann
2006-11-21 16:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-21 17:16 ` Peter Baumann
2006-11-21 18:14 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-11-21 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-21 16:47 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-21 17:11 ` Peter Baumann
2006-11-21 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-21 18:38 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-11-21 18:42 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-11-21 19:05 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-21 18:06 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-21 18:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-21 18:21 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-21 18:34 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-21 18:39 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-21 18:48 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-21 18:52 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-21 19:04 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-21 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-21 20:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-23 9:25 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-24 7:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-23 9:36 ` [PATCH] config option core.showroot to enable showing the diff of the root commit Peter Baumann
2006-11-23 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-23 23:34 ` Peter Baumann
2006-11-24 0:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-24 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-24 7:53 ` Peter Baumann
2006-11-24 8:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-24 9:04 ` Peter Baumann
2006-11-21 18:39 ` git-show --stat on first commit Carl Worth
2006-11-21 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
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