Re: git://repo.or.cz/glibc-cvs.git busted?

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian dot org>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 05:33:33PM +0000, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:22:49PM +0000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:42:30PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >> >   Yes, the glibc-cvs.git repository is busted. If you have any way to
> >> > ask Roland or Ulrich to make the CVSROOT of the glibc-cvs repository
> >> > public, one could use parsecvs to have a way better export. I don't
> >> > think making parsecvs (the tool from Keith Packard) incremental would be
> >> > hard, and it's pretty efficient and fast.
> >>
> >> The repository is available by rsync already.
> >
> >   Oh I didn't knew that, I searched once and didn't found this, I'll
> > search again :)
> 
> It's not well publicized.
> Try this:
> 
>   rsync sources.redhat.com::glibc-cvs
> aka
>   rsync sourceware.org::glibc-cvs
> 
> If you come up with a good procedure for converting,
> I can do the sync directly on sourceware.
> The infrastructure is already there, since
> I'm doing it already for lvm and device-mapper.
> 
> At worst, I can do the parsecvs conversion for the
> base repo, and use git-cvsimport to keep it up to date.
> That should work.  But if someone can propose an even better way,
> I'll be happy to use that.

  Well that's all I can see right now, though there is a high chance
that cvsps will be confused because of the size of the repository. I'm
trying to reach Keith to see with him if parsecvs could be make
incremental. I believe so, but I don't really know at which cost.

-- 
ÂOÂ  Pierre Habouzit
ÂÂO                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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