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Re: Fixes to parsecvs

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JGJan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Date
Apr 6, 2006, 16:09 UTC
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On Thu, 2006-04-06 17:26:14 +0200, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:08 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > > But it seems it now starts to really consume memory:
> > The question is whether it needs to be more efficient so that people can 
> > constantly convert repositories or whether moving the repository to a 
> > sufficiently large machine for the one-time conversion is 'good enough'.
> 
> Keep in mind that there are many more valid uses for tracking a CVS 
> repository than to import it once.

Even the most simplest usage case reveals this. (It's also what I'm about to do the the converted GCC repository.)

Get the repo, locally track the changes (so the importet branches are all like "vendor branches") and do own work in local branches.

I'll do this eg. to be able to easily re-diff patches, which I want to put into GIT, just because it's so much more convenient than SVN. However, this is only possible because I'm able to keep track of upstream SVN changes. They probably won't change their SCM again, just after they've introduced SVN.

MfG, JBG
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Message 5 of 13 in “Fixes to parsecvs”
  1. Keith PackardApr 6, 2006
  2. Jan-Benedict GlawApr 6, 2006
  3. Keith PackardApr 6, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinApr 6, 2006
  5. Jan-Benedict GlawApr 6, 2006
  6. Keith PackardApr 6, 2006
  7. Francois RomieuApr 9, 2006
  8. Jim RadfordApr 6, 2006
  9. Keith PackardApr 6, 2006
  10. Martin LanghoffApr 6, 2006
  11. Keith PackardApr 6, 2006
  12. Martin LanghoffApr 6, 2006
  13. Keith PackardApr 7, 2006

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