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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Cc: mattst88@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:07:22
Message-Id: 20110824092135.5bd075f7@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:44:57 -0400
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Donnie Berkholz
5 > <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
6 > > On 15:49 Tue 23 Aug     , Lance Albertson wrote:
7 > >> I think using the shortlog output is the sane solution otherwise
8 > >> you're just replicating what you do in the commit.
9 > >
10 > > It's not replication if users continue to use rsync; they won't have
11 > > commit info.
12 >
13 > Do we really want users to continue using rsync? Isn't git pull so
14 > much faster? What's the downside of users using git directly?
15
16 We still need to supply them with metadata cache, and we don't really
17 want to put that in the git tree. And a few other files are merged into
18 the tree as well (AFAIR herds.xml is an example); we could try some
19 kind of hybrid rsync+git but I guess not yet.
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny

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