From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Shmakov Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git Date: 15 Nov 2007 00:26:11 +0600 Message-ID: References: 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 Wed Nov 14 19:26:39 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 1IsMwe-0002cw-L4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:26:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755184AbXKNS0U (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:26:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753831AbXKNS0U (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:26:20 -0500 Received: from mx.asu.ru ([82.179.20.33]:43679 "HELO ns.asu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751807AbXKNS0T (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:26:19 -0500 Received: (qmail 15015 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Nov 2007 18:26:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO th2.phys.asu.ru) (82.179.21.199) by ns.asu.ru with SMTP; 14 Nov 2007 18:26:12 -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 1IsMwG-00076O-EL; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:26:13 +0600 In-Reply-To: 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: >>>>> "IS" == Ivan Shmakov writes: [...] IS> * it looks like `git-cvsimport' uses its own CVS protocol IS> implementation which doesn't support compression; I've tried to IS> clone a repository of a project hosted in CVS since circa 1998 and IS> it 20 MiB or so to obtain revisions until 2000 or so; any ways to IS> minimize traffic? I've switched to tailor instead. It uses native cvs(1), which supports compression. IS> * how many revisions will `git-svn fetch' obtain from the SVN IS> repository? I had to run it for several times to get the full IS> history; I've tried to use (undocumented) `--fetch-all' option, BTW, how about documenting that one? IS> but it appears to help (may be but for a little.) s/to/not to/. [...]