From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:50:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20070714215031.GA3833@ugly.local> References: <469804B4.1040509@alum.mit.edu> <46a038f90707132230n120e6392uaf5cd86ff10b6012@mail.gmail.com> <4699034A.9090603@alum.mit.edu> <20070714195252.GB11010@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Martin Langhoff , Julian Phillips , git@vger.kernel.org, dev To: "Eric S. Raymond" X-From: dev-return-2042-gcvscd-dev=m.gmane.org@cvs2svn.tigris.org Sat Jul 14 23:50:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvscd-dev@gmane.org Received: from sc157.sjc.collab.net ([204.16.104.146] helo=tigris.org) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9pVf-0001ld-Q4 for gcvscd-dev@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:50:40 +0200 Received: (qmail 13863 invoked by uid 5000); 14 Jul 2007 21:50:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@cvs2svn.tigris.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@cvs2svn.tigris.org Received: (qmail 13853 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2007 21:50:35 -0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFrimEaD9nj6jWdsb2JhbACPNwEBAgcGBgkGHw X-IronPort-AV: i="4.16,539,1175497200"; d="scan'208"; a="62155235:sNHT17808840" X-IRONPORT: SCANNED Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Martin Langhoff , Julian Phillips , git@vger.kernel.org, dev Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070714195252.GB11010@thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:52:52PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > That being the case, two-step conversion with tools that import CVS to > SVN and export from SVN to whatever actually works extremely well. > well, yes. hoooowever ... you are missing a few details: - conversion time. until we have incremental conversions, this is absolutely critical to many organizations. - psychology. cvs2xxx is simpler than cvs2svn + svn2xxx. it's also sort of a mindset thing. don't underestimate this. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.