From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:45:08 -0500 Message-ID: <20061130004508.GA22208@nevyn.them.org> References: <9e4733910611201349s4d08b984g772c64982f148bfa@mail.gmail.com> <456ACAF3.1050608@alum.mit.edu> <456AD137.8060209@bluegap.ch> <456B61FE.7060100@alum.mit.edu> <456C5363.6040409@bluegap.ch> <456E2746.4050707@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Markus Schiltknecht , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , dev@cvs2svn.tigris.org, Shawn Pearce Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <456E2746.4050707@alum.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gpa3G-0005LF-Op for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:45:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967738AbWK3ApT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:45:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967739AbWK3ApT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:45:19 -0500 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:35500 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967738AbWK3ApS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:45:18 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gpa32-0005mo-Tl; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:45:09 -0500 To: Michael Haggerty Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:35:18AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > ...times 4 (tags per day) -> 32GB. If I understand correctly, the tags > were created nightly by automated scripts. Correct. Remember, checking out a branch from a CVS repository from a particular date was extremely awkward; the tags were the only way to have reproducible snapshots. -- Daniel Jacobowitz