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Re: git mirror at infradead?
On 06/09/09 16:17, Jason Merrill wrote:
> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Please please do *not* rsync the infradead repository. The repository
> on gcc.gnu.org is set up so that I can switch back and forth between
> pulling from git and using git-svn directly; the infradead repository is
> not.
>
> For one thing, the infradead repository uses svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc,
> which makes it impossible to use git-svn to check in changes; the
> gcc.gnu.org git repository uses svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc, as is
> right and proper. Also the remotes are in a different place from where
> git-svn puts them, though I suppose that's easy enough to adjust when
> fetching.
I won't re-create the repository from scratch, then.
Though I would still need an updated version of git to enable lots of
branches and tags without wasting too much hard disk space.
Can a sourceware admin please install (or build) git 1.6.3.x? If there
are concerns of breaking other things, I could install a local copy in
~/bin.
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