From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git
Message-ID: <200711092138.56277.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <b1e3a35f0711090444g3c31e862g4ef4ef8139927840@mail.gmail.com>

fredag 09 november 2007 skrev Ivan Shmakov:
>         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?

You can pass options to cvsps.  My guess is -P "-Z" will do it.

-- robin