From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Shmakov Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git Date: 10 Nov 2007 00:11:25 +0600 Message-ID: References: <87ode31iki.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> Reply-To: Ivan Shmakov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ivan Shmakov To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 09 19:18:31 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 1IqYR2-0002ot-17 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:18:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753640AbXKISSM (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:18:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752565AbXKISSL (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:18:11 -0500 Received: from ns.asu.ru ([82.179.20.33]:58495 "HELO ns.asu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754581AbXKISSK (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:18:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:18:09 EST Received: (qmail 14134 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Nov 2007 18:11:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO th2.phys.asu.ru) (82.179.21.199) by ns.asu.ru with SMTP; 9 Nov 2007 18:11:26 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=cherry.siamics.int) by th2.phys.asu.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IqYKE-0002Rp-LW; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:11:27 +0600 In-Reply-To: <87ode31iki.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> Michael Poole writes: [...] >> * 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. Well, rsync certainly gives CVS the ``disconnected operation'' ability... Any chances to get rsync (or scp/sftp, etc.) access to the CVS repositories on Savannah? (I'm not one of the developers of the aforementioned project, if that matters.)