From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Mozilla, git and Windows Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:37:25 +0100 Organization: Dewire Message-ID: <200611271737.25733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <9e4733910611270728p36e58e08w6cc7a2989b7843ce@mail.gmail.com> <456B057E.4000904@shadowen.org> <9e4733910611270813g4ff982b0tbe6b57d1d49ca9f7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Andy Whitcroft" , "Git Mailing List" Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910611270813g4ff982b0tbe6b57d1d49ca9f7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GolqW-00024G-SX for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:08:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933172AbWK0TIn convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:08:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933186AbWK0TIn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:08:43 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:15136 "EHLO torino.dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933065AbWK0TIm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:08:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB0B8030CA; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:05:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from torino.dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04028-05; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:05:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.5] (unknown [10.9.0.5]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4E98027E2; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:04:57 +0100 (CET) To: "Jon Smirl" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org m=E5ndag 27 november 2006 17:13 skrev Jon Smirl: > On 11/27/06, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > I think you are more likely to win letting them convert over to SVN= =2E > > From there people naturally start using git mirrors from the SVN tr= unk. > > Cirtainly I have two projects which do not use git, one in CVS and= one > > in SVN. I just svnimport that and work in git. I am confident wit= h > > time the project will migrate, but I am happy other git users are h= appy > > all without it being the tool of choice. > > The SVN version of the Mozilla repository is about 3GB. It takes > around a week of CPU time for svnimport to process it. You can track parts of an SVN repo using git-svn. You rarely need the whole history to start working on a project. In addition some nice soul with too much hardware will probably make an= import=20 and publish it and track it so everybody won't have to. We see a lot of= =20 git-tracked repos SVN/CVS already.