From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:38:55 +0100 Message-ID: <200711092138.56277.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Ivan Shmakov" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 09 21:37:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqabE-0004om-Ut for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:37:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750807AbXKIUgv (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:36:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751074AbXKIUgv (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:36:51 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:18630 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750941AbXKIUgu (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:36:50 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468458026E9; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:27:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13573-02; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:27:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19D28026C9; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:27:47 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: fredag 09 november 2007 skrev Ivan Shmakov: > I'm using Git (1.5.3.5 debian 1) for about a day or so, and I'm > quite impressed that it allows tracking remote repositories > (I've tried CVS and SVN) so easily with `git-cvsimport' and > `git-svn'. However, I've ran into a couple of problems with > them: > > * it looks like `git-cvsimport' uses its own CVS protocol > implementation which doesn't support compression; I've tried > to clone a repository of a project hosted in CVS since circa > 1998 and it 20 MiB or so to obtain revisions until 2000 or so; > any ways to minimize traffic? You can pass options to cvsps. My guess is -P "-Z" will do it. -- robin