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Subject: Re: Best Practices so far?
From: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>
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BTW, if you want to have fun, try finding documentation for that
parameter. Only then you will realize, how spoiled we are with the
Redbook. 

That is IMHO the biggest obstacle to git: Bad, missing, outdated docs.

	Best regards
		Henning


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:05 +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Yep. --log-window-size=10000
> 
> 	Best regards
> 		Henning
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:33 +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
> > Jukka Zitting writes:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > So, what's the learning so far? Example how does one set up a git-svn for a
> > > > specific Apache project?
> > > 
> > > I've cloned a few smaller projects like this:
> > > 
> > >  git svn clone -s http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/<project>
> > > 
> > > So far I've avoided doing that with TLPs because of the load on the
> > > svn server, but now that svn.eu.apache.org is in place I'm running the
> > > following:
> > > 
> > >  git svn clone -s http://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit
> > > 
> > > Note that these clones take quite a while (hours) to create, but after
> > > that it's quite easy and fast to keep them up to date with latest
> > > changes.
> > 
> > This is useful info -- thanks!
> > 
> > I noticed on the infra list there was mention of a parameter which
> > restricts how many commits to span in the SVN history; it might be useful
> > to add that to this "best practices" thread...
> > 
> > --j.
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