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Hi,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Michael Witten wrote:

> In any case, I haven't taken a thorough look at how git-cvsserver works, 
> but it seems to duplicate a lot of git-receive-pack.
> 
> How about turning git-cvsserver into a true middleman, so that it 
> constructs a 'temporary git working tree' and then does a real git-push 
> into the final git repository.

That would yield a horrible performance.

Would be opposed, if a regular cvsserver user,
Dscho