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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did I see that you can use CVS client tools to manipulate a git
> repository? Mozilla has a lot of users on other OSes besides Linux. It
> would be nice to change the core server over to git and leave these
> other users running their existing tools.

Yes.  Look at git-cvsserver (ships standard as part of GIT).
It should also be faster than the original CVS server.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.