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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:34:29 -0800
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>On the fly conversion on CVS import isn't particularly crazy, as long as it's
>>under user control.
> 
> Actually, it is.
> 
> Why?
> 
> How are you going to feed your changes back to the original (and initially 
> main) project?
> 
> Hint: they're not going to pull from your git tree, are they?
> 
> Ahh. Maybe patches would be a good idea.
> 
> Ooops.
> 

You're assuming there *IS* an original (and initially main) project.

There is another usage mode: "we're dumping CVS and switching to this 
new-fangled git thing."  I have myself done this with several projects 
by now.

	-hpa