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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: using git to track the GDB CVS: A summary
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:29:20AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Following a message I sent on this mailing list a few weeks ago
> regarding the use of git to track the GDB CVS tree, I received
> a few answers.
> 
> My question was about importing the GDB CVS into a git repository.
> My hope was that the git-cvs bridge was sufficiently powerful and
> efficient that I would be able to have a "git" mirror of the public
> CVS.
> 
> Given the size (in terms of number of changes) of the GDB project,
> and the extreme slowness of importing a CVS project through the network,

Why not rsync a mirror of GDB CVS repository on your local
machine/network? That is what I did.


H.J.