From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@theory.asu.ru>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:26:11 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git
Message-ID: <m2r6isiszg.fsf@cherry.siamics.int>
In-Reply-To: <b1e3a35f0711090444g3c31e862g4ef4ef8139927840@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "IS" == Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

 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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