On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:43:45PM +0400, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:49:38AM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > > Я попробую спросить, но то что я гуглом нашел не утешает.
> > > "We've never allowed anonymous rsync from cvs.gnome.org,
> > > and I'm not sure it's a good idea."
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gnome-infrastructure@gnome.org/msg00203.html
> > 
> > Ну так ты далеко не anonymous. :)
> 
> Вот что он пишет.
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to import libxml2 cvs sources into my GIT repository, and
> > the preferable way of doing this (with Keith Packard's parsecvs)
> > requires direct access to *,v files from cvs repository.  Unfortunately
> > it appears that anonymous rsync access to cvs.gnome.org was disabled
> > some time ago.  I tried a few mirrors but ultimately I wasn't able to
> > grab *,v files from anywhere.  Can't you help?
> 
>   I don't have access directly myself. I also note that each time
> libxml2 has been imported into another project source control system
> it has been a real pain to avoid them staying behind or even forking
> (e.g. KDE and OpenOffice.org) so unless it's purely for personal
> convenience I'm not too fond of that. But again I really don't think
> I have direct access to the CVS tree (maybe I should worrry about that
> but I trust the admins there).

Я ему отписал, но доступ к gnomecvs всё равно было бы крайне желательно
заиметь, потому что там не только libxml2 лежит.


That's cretainly not about forking libxml2 for another project.  This
is about building rpm package for ALT Linux, and we would rather
participate in libxml2 development.  I think that Michael Zabaluev
provided some feedback and a few patches, and I hope this was not a real
pain at all. :)  Basically we need git repo for fine-grained history
and easier debugging, e.g. for using git-bisect to find buggy changes.

But as you don't have access yourself, we can use git-cvsimport which
is not that bad at all (but much slower with pserver).  Thank you anyway.