Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Karl Fogel]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
>    I tried to do a test conversion of the Emacs CVS repository, but don't
>    see a way to get a full repository tarball from Savannah.  If someone
>    can hand me one, I'll do a test conversion and report back.
>
> | rsync -av cvs.gnu.org::sources/emacs .
>
> Someone already noted that there was already a git repository of Emacs
> on savannah:
>
> | git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git

Oh, I already followed up in the original thread with the answer.
Here it is:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> > But I doubt all of them manage to squeeze all of Emacs' CVS history
> > (actually, more than that, since the Emacs' git repository also contains
> > the non-CVS multi-tty history AFAIK) into 200MB.
> 
> Only ~280MB for a git clone, for what it's worth.  I used Romain
> Francoise's [correct: Jim Meyering's] git mirror of Emacs CVS to
> determine this:
> 
>    $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
>    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/kfogel/src/emacs/.git/
>    remote: Generating pack...
>    remote: 
>    Done counting 451233 objects.
>    remote: Deltifying 451233 objects...
>    remote: 
>    Indexing 451233 objects...
>    remote: Total 451233 (delta 350726), reused 433746 (delta 336579)
>     100% (451233/451233) done
>    Resolving 350726 deltas...
>     100% (350726/350726) done
>    Checking 2778 files out...
>     100% (2778/2778) done
>    $ du -sh emacs
>    282M       emacs
>    $ 

-Karl