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Re: git-show --stat on first commit

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20061121190530.GG7201@pasky.or.cz>
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<20061121183853.GA61605@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:38:53PM CET, Olivier Galibert wrote:
Show 11 quoted lines
> 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.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 13 of 35 in “git-show --stat on first commit”
  1. Andy ParkinsNov 21, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  3. Santi BéjarNov 21, 2006
  4. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  6. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  9. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2006
  11. Olivier GalibertNov 21, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  13. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  14. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  17. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  18. Andy ParkinsNov 21, 2006
  19. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  20. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  21. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  24. Andy ParkinsNov 23, 2006
  25. Jakub NarebskiNov 24, 2006
  26. config option core.showroot to enable showing the diff of the root commitPeter Baumann, Nov 23, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoNov 23, 2006
  28. Peter BaumannNov 23, 2006
  29. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  30. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  31. Peter BaumannNov 24, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  33. Peter BaumannNov 24, 2006
  34. Carl WorthNov 21, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2006

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