From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68630 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Seltenreich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: git/hg Gnus repository Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:13:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87ljnayw9a.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> References: <87prjw70et.fsf@randomsample.de> <87hc56r93s.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi> <873agqqugv.fsf@randomsample.de> <87abaxgjgh.fsf@randomsample.de> <87zlgohewf.fsf@gmail.com> <87bpt3y8pu.fsf@randomsample.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246349698 19302 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2009 08:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:14:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17057@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 30 10:14:51 2009 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 1MLYUL-0003Ys-MV for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:14:49 +0200 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 1MLYTM-0004p8-0P; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:13:48 -0500 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 1MLYTK-0004ov-Cg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:13:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MLYTE-0008WO-Ht for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:13:46 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de ([129.13.185.218] ident=Debian-exim) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MLYTk-0004eg-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:14:12 +0200 Original-Received: from rzstud2.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de (rzstud2.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de [193.196.41.42]) by smtp2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1MLYTD-0004Wb-86; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:13:39 +0200 Original-Received: from uwi7 by rzstud2.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MLYTC-0000lv-V7 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:13:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87bpt3y8pu.fsf@randomsample.de> (David Engster's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:18:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Hashcash: 1:26:090630:ding@gnus.org::U/kGYWUnofPMDYBS:0I6nq X-Spam-Score: -5.1 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68630 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > "Eric Schulte" 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