[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch performance with large trees

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:19, Cliff Brake wrote:
> How do you sync your arch repositories w/ the Linux source trees?  I
> am using tla-cvs-sync to track U-boot which works very well.  Also, is
> there an Arch mirror of the kernel source available?

I initially had a linux--main--2.6 repository where I applied the main
released patches from kernel.org but I was missing the latest patches in
the BK tree.

I recently wrote a script that converts the Linux (BK->)CVS repository
while preserving the changeset information (this repository, retrievable
via rsync, has a ChangeSet file with all the logs and the other files'
logs containing the changeset number). You could also use the same
tla-cvs-sync script but it loses the individual changesets. It cannot
track renames since CVS doesn't support them but it is still usable.

I don't have the necessary infrastructure but I hope James Blackwell
would be kind enough to host a Linux kernel repository on the
sourcecontrol.net site. I will donate the script :-)

Catalin