Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Why am I interested? I want to switch the development of GNU coreutils
>> from cvs to git. I would also like to continue making the repository
>> available via cvs, for the sake of continuity. At worst, I can always
>> cut the CVS cord, but that's a last resort.
>
> If you only want to make a cvs repository available for tracking the
> project, git-cvsserver is what you want. It is even faster than the
> original cvs...
That might work if I had sufficient access to the system hosting the
public CVS repository. But there are restrictions (like no ssh access).
Currently I rsync the master repo to an intermediate site, from which
it is periodically pulled by savannah. Paranoia on both sides.
If I end up leaving savannah, can someone propose a good site,
i.e., secure, yet with git and rsync access?
I haven't made the leap to git yet, but git-cvsimport (from git-1.3.2)
seems to do a very good job of converting the cvs module (89MB).
FYI, here are some stats on the resulting git repository:
Size (nothing repacked):
1051MB (du -sh, actual, on reiserfs 3)
708MB (du --apparent-size)
Size repacked, (via git-repack -a -d && git-prune-packed)
65MB (du --si -s)
20k+ patchsets (counted by cvsps)
40k+ revisions (counted by cvs ... rlog cu|grep -c '^revision')
While repacking, git said something about more than 100K objects.
There were 120K files under .git/ before repacking.
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