Re: git://repo.or.cz/glibc-cvs.git busted?

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian dot org>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:22:49PM +0000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:42:30PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >   Yes, the glibc-cvs.git repository is busted. If you have any way to
> > ask Roland or Ulrich to make the CVSROOT of the glibc-cvs repository
> > public, one could use parsecvs to have a way better export. I don't
> > think making parsecvs (the tool from Keith Packard) incremental would be
> > hard, and it's pretty efficient and fast.
> 
> The repository is available by rsync already.

  Oh I didn't knew that, I searched once and didn't found this, I'll
search again :)

> Converting a one-time import tool to an incremental one may be a bit
> harder than you think.  We tried to do this for cvs2svn and got
> not far at all.

  Well parsecvs is a very very small tool. sth like 6kloc, and it acts
directly on the RCS files. I'm pretty sure something is doable :)

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ÂOÂ  Pierre Habouzit
ÂÂO                                                madcoder@debian.org
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