On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:38:53PM CET, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:11:19PM +0100, Peter Baumann wrote: > > And I think handling this behaviour as a config option is the right thing, > > because most of the time if someone imports a project into git he > > will import the whole history, especially if he is using one of the > > cvs/svn importers. A "halfway import" as seen in the kernel repo is a > > special case and it is unlikely seen again. > > Not all projects run on a public VCS. Hell, not all projects run on a > VCS at all. And in the CVS case, you don't always have enough access > to actually download the repository, which afaik is needed for > importing. It isn't needed. It's probably much slower over the net but that's how I created the glibc-cvs.git repository (at repo.or.cz); cvsps can operate over the network. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is: "Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens from Titan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html