From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68631 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: git/hg Gnus repository Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:22 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <87ljnayw9a.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246350534 26156 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2009 08:28:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:28:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17058@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 30 10:28:47 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 1MLYhq-0008Fc-8h for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:46 +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 1MLYhg-0004vQ-Ie; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MLYhf-0004vF-GM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MLYhZ-0000pR-FI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MLYi5-0004r0-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from gwdg-mac-engster.top.gwdg.de ([134.76.4.218]) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MLYhY-0004q0-5r for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ljnayw9a.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> (Andreas Seltenreich's message of "Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:13:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.93 (darwin) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68631 Archived-At: Andreas Seltenreich writes: > 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. 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