Hi Karl, > Was the cvs access to git intentionally shut down? > (Sorry if I missed the announcement.) > As of some time ago -- looks like it might have been six months, call me > late! -- I am seeing: > > cvs [update aborted]: connect to [pserver.git.sv.gnu.org]:2401 failed: > Connection timed out
Indeed, same for me. It was probably not intentional, but it is not a big loss either: The cvs-from-git view did not cope well with added or removed files, IIRC. The last modification date of gitcvs-db in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git/ is 2011-07-11. > Alternatively, is it possible to tell git "I only want to clone one > subdirectory" (namely build-aux)? All the incantations I tried failed. Results of a web search for "git clone subdirectory": There are apparently two ways to do it: - git filter-branch [1] - git sparse checkouts [2] But both approaches likely assume a local copy of the entire git repository. If you need only specific files, you can do so through 'wget'. I have this code in gettext's autogen.sh: for file in config.guess config.sub; do wget -q --timeout=5 -O build-aux/$file.tmp "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/${file};hb=HEAD"; \ && mv build-aux/$file.tmp build-aux/$file \ && chmod a+x build-aux/$file done Listing a subdirectory's contents through the gitweb interface is certainly doable as well. Bruno [1] http://www.pither.com/articles/2009/02/04/extracting-a-subdirectory-from-git-as-a-new-git-repository [2] http://blog.quilitz.de/2010/03/checkout-sub-directories-in-git-sparse-checkouts/
