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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 06:29:20 +1200
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On 6/8/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> My guess is that it's the _mozilla_ documentation people that don't
> necessarily have cygwin and perl, because they don't work with the normal
> build.
>
> Ie there are people who can write user documentation, without them having
> any clue - or caring about - build systems.

Which means that git-cvsserver can probably help them -- I don't think
documentation people (and translators, graphic artists, etc) need all
the git smarts. A simplistic TortoiseCVS + git-cvsserver should fit
their usage...

cheers,


martin