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IS> * it looks like `git-cvsimport' uses its own CVS protocol
IS> implementation which doesn't support compression; I've tried to
IS> clone a repository of a project hosted in CVS since circa 1998 and
IS> it 20 MiB or so to obtain revisions until 2000 or so; any ways to
IS> minimize traffic?
I've switched to tailor instead. It uses native cvs(1), which
supports compression.
IS> * how many revisions will `git-svn fetch' obtain from the SVN
IS> repository? I had to run it for several times to get the full
IS> history; I've tried to use (undocumented) `--fetch-all' option,
BTW, how about documenting that one?
IS> but it appears to help (may be but for a little.)
s/to/not to/.
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