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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver runs hooks/post-receive
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:19:07 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Michael Witten wrote:

> On 30 Nov 2007, at 7:03:15 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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,
> 
> How come?

I remember driving git-cvsserver on a bare repository, with "ln -s 
/usr/bin/git-cvsserver ~cvsuser/bin/", and it was superfast.

One user even asked if I upgraded my cvs, because it was so much faster 
than before.  I said yes.

Ciao,
Dscho