tracking remotes with Git

From: Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 9, 2007, 12:44 UTC
Message-ID: <b1e3a35f0711090444g3c31e862g4ef4ef8139927840@mail.gmail.com>

        I'm using Git (1.5.3.5 debian 1) for about a day or so, and I'm
        quite impressed that it allows tracking remote repositories
        (I've tried CVS and SVN) so easily with `git-cvsimport' and
        `git-svn'.  However, I've ran into a couple of problems with
        them:

        * it looks like `git-cvsimport' uses its own CVS protocol
          implementation which doesn't support compression; I've tried
          to clone a repository of a project hosted in CVS since circa
          1998 and it 20 MiB or so to obtain revisions until 2000 or so;
          any ways to minimize traffic?

        * how many revisions will `git-svn fetch' obtain from the SVN
          repository? I had to run it for several times to get the full
          history; I've tried to use (undocumented) `--fetch-all'
          option, but it appears to help (may be but for a little.)

        BTW, does http://.../git.git/ mean a ``bare repository (i. e., a
        would be /git/.git/) for Git''?

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