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Re: Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 15, 2005, 22:37 UTC
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> 
> If I find the time, I'll add some sort of pattern-match parameters to
> be tried against the commitmsg to extract likely head/branch names
> where we are merging from. My problem right now is that the only cvs
> repo with interesting branches and merges I have is huge, and takes an
> hour to import. That puts a damper on things, unfortunately.

I was seriously considering just breaking the "remote cvs" support entirely (you can always just use cvsup or something to download it to make it local), and just taking the RCS parsing code from GNU rcs/cvs and making a C language CVS importer. That would speed things up by an order of magnitude or more, as far as I can tell.

			Linus
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  1. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  4. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  6. Sven VerdoolaegeAug 15, 2005
  7. Matthias UrlichsAug 15, 2005
  8. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  9. Wolfgang DenkAug 15, 2005
  10. Matthias UrlichsAug 15, 2005
  11. Sven VerdoolaegeAug 15, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  13. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  14. Wolfgang DenkAug 15, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  16. Johannes SchindelinAug 15, 2005

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