Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>]

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> brendan said SVN is likely for the main Mozilla repo and monotone for
> the new Mozilla 2 work. No native win32 caused git to be immediately
> discarded.

Yea, that lack of native win32 seems to be one of a number of
blockers for people switching their projects onto Git.

I think there's a number of issues that are keeping people from
switching to Git and are instead causing them to choose SVN, hg
or Monotone:

  - No GUI.
  - No native win32 installation.
  - CVS import fails on some projects (e.g. Mozilla).
  - Confusing documentation.
  - pull/merge debate.
  - Fear of hash conflicts corrupting a repository.

I think Junio has solved the pull/merge debate issue.  We've talked
the hash conflict issue to death, but some new people still haven't
read those threads (or won't believe them).  I know people are trying
to work on improving the documentation, but there is obviously still
room for improvements.

Right now I'm trying to work on the no GUI problem with git-gui...

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