>>>>> Michael Poole <mdpoole@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.) - 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
