Hi,

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Matthew Ogilvie wrote:

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> I perceive one remaining big issue for git-cvsserver to be a good 
> replacement for real CVS: The ability to properly support "cvs update -r 
> VERSION", where VERSION could be any branch, tag, CVS version number, or 
> git commit hash. Git-cvsserver can partially support this by checking 
> out a totally different sandbox as "cvs checkout VERSION" (notice no 
> -r), but without the ability to switch versions in place, that is an 
> awkward workaround at best.

I might be missing something obvious, but would it not be better to _not_ 
check out anything, but serve every object straight from the object 
database (possibly with CR/LF mangling)?

Ciao,
Dscho

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