Re: read-only git mirror of automake cvs repository

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> I've set up a read-only git mirror of the automake cvs repository:

Thank you!

>     http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=automake.git

--18:05:43--  http://sources.redhat.com/git/automake.git/info/refs
           => `refs'
Resolving sources.redhat.com... 209.132.176.174
Connecting to sources.redhat.com|209.132.176.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:05:43 ERROR 404: Not Found.

git-clone uses curl and ends up saying:
  Cannot get remote repository information.
  Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?

> It is updated from cvs every 15 minutes, but due to the way cvsps
> works, it may take two iterations for a change in cvs to propagate
> into the git tree.

That's still great.  I wonder how you did this because I already  
tried several times to import the various autotools with git- 
cvsimport and it always miserably failed (for various reasons, but  
mainly because cvsps is a really dirty hack and its code has lots of  
bugs, some of which I had to fix so that it eventually finishes but  
the resulting Git repository had lots of corrupted commits).

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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