Ivan Shmakov writes: > I'm using Git (1.5.3.5 debian 1) for about a day or so, and I'm > quite impressed that it allows tracking remote repositories > (I've tried CVS and SVN) so easily with `git-cvsimport' and > `git-svn'. However, I've ran into a couple of problems with > them: > > * 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. Michael Poole - 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
