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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:08:13
Message-Id: 20110824065849.GE18397@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration by Matt Turner
1 On 24-08-2011 00:44:57 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On 15:49 Tue 23 Aug     , Lance Albertson wrote:
4 > >> I think using the shortlog output is the sane solution otherwise you're
5 > >> just replicating what you do in the commit.
6 > >
7 > > It's not replication if users continue to use rsync; they won't have
8 > > commit info.
9 >
10 > Do we really want users to continue using rsync? Isn't git pull so
11 > much faster? What's the downside of users using git directly?
12
13 ehm, that you need git? that you need to use git to get information
14 about changes? that you need a whole new infrastructure of mirrors to
15 get it running (vs the rsync infrastructure)? that you need at minimum
16 800MiB to be able to look at some history, iso. 286MiB as the rsync tree
17 is now?
18
19 Besides from that git doesn't even work on all platforms, but I can
20 imagine you don't care about that.
21
22
23 --
24 Fabian Groffen
25 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com>