From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:03:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver runs hooks/post-receive
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711301202230.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7F81126E-5A76-40CA-94BF-82B46C57AFF6@mit.edu>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Michael Witten wrote:

> In any case, I haven't taken a thorough look at how git-cvsserver works, 
> but it seems to duplicate a lot of git-receive-pack.
> 
> How about turning git-cvsserver into a true middleman, so that it 
> constructs a 'temporary git working tree' and then does a real git-push 
> into the final git repository.

That would yield a horrible performance.

Would be opposed, if a regular cvsserver user,
Dscho