From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:42:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make cvs2git support remote CVS repos Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050525181132.75705.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Mark Allen wrote: > > Added a "--module=cvsmodule" command line option and (since we're going to process argv > anyway) made "-v" for verbose mode a command line option too, instead of a compile time > option. Ahh.. You found out how to get CVS to check out individual files. The reason I use RCS "co" directly is because I couldn't figure out how CVS can be made to do it. Of course, the raw RCS possibly also performs better, but somebody should check that. If the overhead of using CVS to do this is low enough, we should drop the raw RCS access, which should simplify your patch and get rid of the need for "RCSDIR". Anybody up for some performance testing? Linus