From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:34:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] git-cvsserver: Add support for some binary files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805191033080.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080519073535.GA2885@comcast.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Matthew Ogilvie wrote:

> I perceive one remaining big issue for git-cvsserver to be a good 
> replacement for real CVS: The ability to properly support "cvs update -r 
> VERSION", where VERSION could be any branch, tag, CVS version number, or 
> git commit hash. Git-cvsserver can partially support this by checking 
> out a totally different sandbox as "cvs checkout VERSION" (notice no 
> -r), but without the ability to switch versions in place, that is an 
> awkward workaround at best.

I might be missing something obvious, but would it not be better to _not_ 
check out anything, but serve every object straight from the object 
database (possibly with CR/LF mangling)?

Ciao,
Dscho