From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Poole Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:37:17 -0500 Message-ID: <87ode31iki.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Ivan Shmakov" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 09 17:46:16 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 1IqWzm-0005gE-4n for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:46:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754601AbXKIQp6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:45:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754581AbXKIQp6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:45:58 -0500 Received: from 24-75-174-210-st.chvlva.adelphia.net ([24.75.174.210]:46362 "EHLO sanosuke.troilus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754512AbXKIQp5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:45:57 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 518 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:45:57 EST Received: by sanosuke.troilus.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 84CA689C110; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:37:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Ivan Shmakov's message of "Fri\, 9 Nov 2007 19\:44\:50 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ivan Shmakov writes: > 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? What I do is arguably a horrible kludge, but it works well: rsync to mirror the CVS repository to my local drive, and cvsimport from that. When I was tweaking the import process (command-line options and the author conversion file), having the local copy helped a lot. Michael Poole