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>> * 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?
> What I do is arguably a horrible kludge, but it works well: rsync
> to mirror the CVS repository to my local drive, and cvsimport from
> that. When I was tweaking the import process (command-line options
> and the author conversion file), having the local copy helped a
> lot.
Well, rsync certainly gives CVS the ``disconnected operation''
ability... Any chances to get rsync (or scp/sftp, etc.) access
to the CVS repositories on Savannah? (I'm not one of the
developers of the aforementioned project, if that matters.)