Re: git mirror at infradead?

[Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>]

Hello Bernie,

* Bernie Innocenti wrote on Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:17:44PM CEST:
> On 06/07/09 07:21, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > sorry if this is not an official mirror of the GCC tree, but
> > <git://git.infradead.org/toolchain/gcc.git> has not been updated since
> > June 1.  Any chance you (or whoever is responsible) could look into it?
> 
> The git-svn process was stuck on a read(), with the socket to
> gcc.gnu.org still open.  Killing the process and running the update
> script again fixed it.

Thanks!

> BTW, we also have another up-to-date git mirror, supposedly the
> "official" one:
> 
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git

Is this mirror an independent conversion from the infradead one (i.e., I
have to throw away the repo and re-download a full repo?  Or can I reuse
objects)?  

> I never got around to give it the necessary love, though, such as
> configuring a few more branches.

Oh.  Yes, at least the still-active release branches would be nice to
have.

> Also, sourceware still running git 1.5
> doesn't help (git-svn was greatly improved in git 1.6).

Does that mean you would like to redo the full export after updating
git-svn?  If yes, then I'd want to wait until after that before
switching.

Thanks,
Ralf