Re: git/hg Gnus repository

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 13 2008, David Engster wrote:
>
>> Has anyone managed to convert Gnus CVS to hg or git? For me, the
>> conversion fails due to to the already discussed corruption of the CVS:
>>
>>  unexpected EOF reading RCS file
>>  /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-uu.el,v
>>
>> Is it somehow possible to retrieve the full CVS via rsync to investigate
>> this further?
>
> AFAIK, the only way to get it is to ask Lars.  But it already has been
> investigated:

Ah, OK.  

@Lars: It would still be nice to somehow have access to the full CVS
repository, maybe via rsync or simply the current status as a tar file,
since conversion from a remote pserver is dead slow and would produce
quite some traffic, especially for a project with such a long history as
Gnus.

[...]

> Unless someone comes up with a better solution, I'll ask Andreas to
> repeat the procedure (delete all revisions before 5.2) and ask Lars to
> install this file.

I'd say it's the only viable solution at the moment.

-David