Re: using git to track the GDB CVS: A summary

H.J. Lu
2008-01-14T15:47:35Z

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.