From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gerhard.oettl.ml@ogersoft.at Subject: Re: [user] git-svn and svn cp Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:34:35 +0100 Message-ID: <474190EB.2090701@ogersoft.at> References: <47416F68.9070908@ogersoft.at> <86k5oez9f5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 19 14:33:14 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 1Iu6kH-0003fq-2Z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:33:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752510AbXKSNco (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:32:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752107AbXKSNcn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:32:43 -0500 Received: from h082218134240.host.wavenet.at ([82.218.134.240]:33755 "EHLO h082218134240.host.wavenet.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751911AbXKSNcn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:32:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (85-124-70-106.work.xdsl-line.inode.at [85.124.70.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by h082218134240.host.wavenet.at (8.13.8/8.13.8/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id lAJDWS5m020822 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:32:41 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Benoit Sigoure schrieb: > On Nov 19, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > I think this is irrelevant to the question he asked. > > Now I think that the fact that SVN does "lightweight" copies by > recording that such modification was in fact an `svn cp' / `svn mv' > isn't important for git-svn, because the data end up in the Git > repository which handles copies and moves much much better than SVN > does. I hoped this and it was one of the motivations for looking at git ;-) But why is so much traffic necessary to transfer data that is already _complete_ present in the local git repository? Traffic that seams not to be necessary when using the "not so good" svn. gerhard