From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:53:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508160051580.26204@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508151535130.3553@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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.

That may be true for many "cvs import" tasks, but not _at all_ for "cvs 
update" tasks. I, for one, keep track of _lots_ of CVS projects via 
git-cvsimport. I would hate it if I could no longer do that.

Ciao,
Dscho