On Mon, Apr 05 2010, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:16:20AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 06:04:48PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> > I will of course be responsible for keeping this branch synched so that its
>> > eventual merging with the tip of HEAD will be seamless [0].
>> >
>> > -- Thomas Adam
>> >
>> > [0] This is CVS -- what am I saying? It's going to suck. :P Oh, if only
>> > we were using Git...
>>
>> It wouldn't be impossible to change over; CVS -> SVN -> GIT
>> I know, I know, it would still be a huge and painful effort.
>>
>> Would it make sense to make a clean break with 2.60? Leave the old
>> stuff in CVS, but on the 2.60 release, start with a completely new git
>> repository containing just the released 2.60 code, and continue on from
>> there?
>
> Sometimes, questions are meant to be rhetorical. :)
If they were not, git does provide a means of converting CVS
over to git, and then provides a fake CVS server that reads from a git
backend. I won't say it is painless, but it has been known to work
well.
manoj
--
COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects
from a corporation whose president codes in octal. -- J.N. Gray
Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C
