Re: [user] git-svn and svn cp

From: gerhard.oettl.ml@ogersoft.at <gerhard.oettl.ml@ogersoft.at>
Date: Nov 19, 2007, 13:34 UTC
Message-ID: <474190EB.2090701@ogersoft.at>
In-Reply-To: <EB96D9F3-D69C-4D46-961C-27885CBC0E52@lrde.epita.fr>

Benoit Sigoure schrieb:

> On Nov 19, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> I think this is irrelevant to the question he asked.
> 
> Now I think that the fact that SVN does "lightweight" copies by 
> recording that such modification was in fact an `svn cp' / `svn mv' 
> isn't important for git-svn, because the data end up in the Git 
> repository which handles copies and moves much much better than SVN 
> does.

I hoped this and it was one of the motivations for looking at git  ;-)

But why is so much traffic necessary to transfer data that is already _complete_ present in the local git repository? Traffic that seams not to be necessary when using the "not so good" svn.

gerhard