Re: git/hg Gnus repository

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org> writes:
> 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.

Well, I still had hope to somehow get access to the full CVS repo and do
a conversion. But it seems this is not going to happen, so maybe putting
up a truncated git repo is as good as it gets. I would also like to look
at bzr, since this is what Emacs is going to use.

-David