From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:36:54 +0900 Message-ID: <87bq7xtdgp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <85wsqqnfce.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85fxxbjjk2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199748739 2217 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 23:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: CHENG Gao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 00:32:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JC1SO-0005NK-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:32:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC1S1-0000iH-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC1Ry-0000em-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC1Rw-0000cA-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC1Rw-0000bl-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JC1Rv-0002XR-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5954F8001; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:32:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 661361A29E5; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:36:55 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86531 Archived-At: CHENG Gao writes: > Yes you are right. Ever I tried to git clone emacs git repo at home, and > it took forever so I had to abort the mission. I got a 2m ADSL at home. > Instead I git cloned it in office, and it took only several minutes with > 10M line. My experience and worry is git clone may be slow for slow > connections. There are workarounds for this. For example, find a volunteer, send them a SASE and a blank CD-ROM and request a copy of the .git directory. This costs only a few minutes of your time and a few dollars in S&H. Or maybe the FSF could make a few bucks with a service like this. It might also be faster to rsync the .git directory, although if the .git directory is well-packed it shouldn't make much difference. As you suggest, a CVS mirror of the official public repo could be maintained as a convenience to nondevelopers.