[Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

[Jim Meyering]

Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
>> rsync write access is good, at least initially.
>> Unless there's some other way for me to transfer the original
>> .git repository, and potentially, to overwrite it with a new
>> one as I experiment and (likely, as I learn) want to start fresh.
>
> After some thoughs, we cannot provide direct and complete rsync access
> with our current security model which is: no local access (and not
> custom hooks). Even CVS replication is made in such a way that CVSROOT
> is not overwritten.
>
> I'd rather work on setting git up so it can suit your needs as well as
> those of other users :)
>
> I need to implement a Savane interface to backup&reset any repository
> on project admin's demand - if you can help work on this, that'd be
> welcome =)

I'm ready to mirror coreutils' git repository to savannah, now.
Since coreutils-6.4, I'm using git, and mirroring all changes to cvs.

If things are ready, what are the options and paths for push/pull?
Have you considered the software behind repo.or.cz?  It's free (GPL'd).

Regards,

Jim