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Re: git mirror at infradead?
On 06/07/09 12:40, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 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)?
It's an independent mirror, and I wouldn't recommend switching to it yet.
There are permissions problems, and I might end up rsyncing the whole
infradead repository rather than fixing things locally.
>> 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.
There was a problem with git-svn creating very large temporary files for
each branch or tag, but iirc it was solved in 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.
Indeed. I could build git locally in my account, but I'd rather have a
sourceware admin update git system-wise.
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