From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:38:53 GMT
Subject: Re: git-show --stat on first commit
Message-ID: <20061121183853.GA61605@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrnem6cpn.6vh.Peter.B.Baumann@xp.machine.xx>

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.

  OG.