Subject: Re: tracking remotes with Git

From: Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Nov 2007 10:05:13 +0600

>>>>> Robin Rosenberg <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

 >> * it looks like `git-cvsimport' uses its own CVS protocol
 >> implementation which doesn't support compression; I've tried to
 >> clone a repository of a project hosted in CVS since circa 1998 and
 >> it 20 MiB or so to obtain revisions until 2000 or so; any ways to
 >> minimize traffic?

 > You can pass options to cvsps.  My guess is -P "-Z" will do it.

	Well, this helps somewhat.  But still, IIUC, cvsps(1) is used
	only to reconstruct the ``patch sets'', and to fetch the actual
	revisions, `git-cvsimport' contacts the CVS repository directly:

--cut: $ nl -ba git-cvsimport--
...
   182	package CVSconn;
   183	# Basic CVS dialog.
   184	# We're only interested in connecting and downloading, so ...
   185	
... not a word about the compression...
   482	package main;
   483	
   484	my $cvs = CVSconn->new($opt_d, $cvs_tree);
...
   911			print "Fetching $fn   v $rev\n" if $opt_v;
   912			my ($tmpname, $size) = $cvs->file($fn,$rev);
...
   930			unlink($tmpname);
...
--cut: $ nl -ba git-cvsimport--