Re: distributed version control

[tarmigan]

(adding Jason to the cc, as I noticed that he has submitted patches to
octave from git, and he may have the flags he used for cvsimport
handy)

On Jan 17, 2008 11:42 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 16-Jan-2008, tarmigan wrote:
>
> | On Jan 16, 2008 2:33 PM, tarmigan wrote:
> | > I don't know the size
> | > of the repository off the top of my head, but I will check tonight.
> |
> | OK, I just did a git-repack to compress the repository, and the entire
> | octave cvs history is 28M in git.  For reference the checked out files
> | for octave are 28M and the 3.0.0.tar.gz is 10.7M.
>
> Can you tell me precisely how you converted the Octave CVS archive to
> git?

I used git-cvsimport, with a bunch of flags.  I don't remember the
options off the top of my head, but I will check tonight.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsimport.html

Thanks,
Tarmigan