From: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.uhasselt.be>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:41:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem using GIT CVS-server
Message-ID: <445896E7.1070306@lumumba.uhasselt.be>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605030311s4e05de2dr90277f97a3a5c223@mail.gmail.com>

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.

> [...]
> 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