Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

CHENG Gao writes:

 > Yes you are right. Ever I tried to git clone emacs git repo at home, and
 > it took forever so I had to abort the mission. I got a 2m ADSL at home.
 > Instead I git cloned it in office, and it took only several minutes with
 > 10M line. My experience and worry is git clone may be slow for slow
 > connections.

There are workarounds for this.  For example, find a volunteer, send
them a SASE and a blank CD-ROM and request a copy of the .git
directory.  This costs only a few minutes of your time and a few
dollars in S&H.  Or maybe the FSF could make a few bucks with a
service like this.

It might also be faster to rsync the .git directory, although if the
.git directory is well-packed it shouldn't make much difference.

As you suggest, a CVS mirror of the official public repo could be
maintained as a convenience to nondevelopers.