From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>,
git@vger.kernel.org, dev <dev@cvs2svn.tigris.org>
Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:50:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070714215031.GA3833@ugly.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070714195252.GB11010@thyrsus.com>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-14 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 14:48 CVS -> SVN -> Git Julian Phillips
2007-07-13 23:03 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 5:30 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-14 17:09 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 17:32 ` Chris Shoemaker
2007-07-14 20:01 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 18:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-15 2:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-14 19:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-07-14 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 21:50 ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2007-07-14 22:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 22:44 ` Karl Fogel
2007-07-14 23:23 ` David Frech
2007-07-15 2:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-15 11:48 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-16 1:08 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-16 1:13 ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-16 1:30 ` Karl Fogel
2007-07-15 1:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-07-15 12:04 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-15 13:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-07-16 1:05 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-19 12:02 ` Markus Schiltknecht
2007-07-20 3:51 ` Karl Fogel
2007-07-19 19:14 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-20 8:45 ` Markus Schiltknecht
2007-07-15 23:09 ` Scott Lamb
2007-07-19 19:18 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-19 19:15 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-20 5:58 ` Julian Phillips
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