Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

Exactly. The dog at this time is cvsps -- I also remember vague
promises from a list regular of publishing a git repo with cvsps2.1 +
some patches from the list.

Ahh. cvsps doesn't do anything incrementally, does it?

Although it _does_ build up a cache of sorts, I think. That's not the 
parts I actually ever ended up looking at.

But yeah, a cvsps that blows up to a gig of VM and takes half an hour to 
parse things just for an incremental update would be a problem.

In any case, and for the record, my cvsps is 2.1 pristine. It handles
the mozilla repo alright, as long as I give it a lot of RAM. I _think_
it slurped 3GB with the mozilla cvs.

Oh, wow. Every single repo I've seen ends up having tons of complaints 
from pristine cvsps, but maybe that's because I only end up looking at the 
ones with problems ;)

I'm coming down to the office now to pick up my laptop, and I'll rsync
it out to our git machine (also NZ kernel mirror, bandwidth should be
good). That's one of the things I've discovered with these large
trees: for the initial publish action, I just use rsync or scp.
Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but git-push doesn't optimise the
'initialise repo', and it take ages (and it this case, it'd probably
OOM).

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So it will take me quite some time to download 2GB+, regardless of how fat
a pipe the other end has ;)

Right-o. Linus, Jon, can you guys then ping me when you have cloned it
safely so I can take it down again?

Tell me where/when it is, and I'll start slurping. Will let you know when 
I'm done.

		Linus