From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67902 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: git/hg Gnus repository Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:35:10 +0100 Message-ID: <874p18ulzl.fsf@randomsample.de> References: <87prjw70et.fsf@randomsample.de> <8763locdrn.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229182538 1350 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2008 15:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Andreas Schwab To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16348@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Dec 13 16:36:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LBWXp-0005Ou-MW for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:36:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBWWW-0007cQ-1b; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:35:20 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBWWU-0007c8-EG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:35:18 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LBWWR-0005VK-Po for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:35:18 -0600 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LBWWe-0006qi-00; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:35:28 +0100 Original-Received: from dslb-082-083-035-166.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.35.166] helo=honk) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBWWR-0002sB-Cc; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:35:15 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: <8763locdrn.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:10:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67902 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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