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Re: Problem using GIT CVS-server

From
PIPanagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.uhasselt.be>
Date
May 3, 2006, 11:41 UTC
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Hi,
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> [...]
> thanks a lot for the feedback! cvsserver has mainly been
> tried/debugged with a few repositories, mainly the moodle.git
> repository that we host, which is an import from a CVS repo.

I didnt even know it existed! :) I was looking for an Eclipse plugin (anyone heard anything about such a beast after 20060313?), when I accidently stumbled upon the git-cvsserver manpage, somewhere on the web.

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> [...]
> That warning is harmless, and always there. I did look once at
> implementing gzip compression, but in some cases it implies creating
> extra temp files to calculate the size, so I've opted to leave it for
> some other day.
>
> OTOH, we could declare that we handle it, and never actually send a
> gzipped file ;-) as long as we can handle gzipped content from the
> client.

Not really an issue imho :) I just automatically type -z3 whenever I do a CVS update :)

BTW, thanks for writing git-cvsserver!

With friendly regards, Takis

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  2. Andreas EricssonMay 3, 2006
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  4. Andreas EricssonMay 3, 2006
  5. Martin LanghoffMay 3, 2006
  6. Martin LanghoffMay 3, 2006
  7. Panagiotis IssarisMay 3, 2006
  8. Martin LanghoffMay 3, 2006
  9. Panagiotis IssarisMay 3, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2006
  11. Martin LanghoffMay 3, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2006
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