Re: git/hg Gnus repository

[Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org>]

David Engster writes:

> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote on top:
>> Now that this has been accomplished, is there any chance of a publicly
>> readable git repo tracking the cvs gnus repo?  Thanks -- Eric
>
> I was only able to import roughly the last year of changes, so my
> private git repo only contains a subset of files. The others are simply
> copied without history.
>
> For having a useful git clone with the full history, one would still
> need a copy of the full CVS repo for a conversion. Using git-cvsimport
> over the net would take ages and hammer the server to no end.

One of the advantages of git is that you can retroactively add history
to a tree using a feature called graft points[1].  So I don't think the
initial lack of a complete import should stall all efforts.  The Linux
development with git started devoiod of history as well, as there were
no means back then to export it from the proprietary SCM they used
before.

regards,
andreas

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GraftPoint