From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:31:47 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: <87d4sdndjg.fsf@news.cyberhut.org> 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> <87bq7xtdgp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199767536 21113 80.91.229.10 (8 Jan 2008 04:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:45:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 05:55:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JC6UX-0002K9-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:55:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC6LE-0008PW-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC6L9-0008P0-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC6L7-0008O5-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC6L6-0008O0-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JC6L6-0007O4-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JC6Kx-0006rv-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:45:15 +0000 Original-Received: from 221.6.207.24 ([221.6.207.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:45:15 +0000 Original-Received: from chenggao by 221.6.207.24 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:45:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.6.207.24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rxtvrnyZr7T45tHJ+0loyKcl0e0= 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:86551 Archived-At: *On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:36:54 +0900 * Also sprach "Stephen J. Turnbull" : > 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. In fact it's not problem for me. I git cloned it in office and copied it home. Slowness is in "Indexing objects" stage since Emacs has huge number of objects (more than 450000 now). -- The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.