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=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: Mozilla, git and Windows Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:13:10 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910611270813g4ff982b0tbe6b57d1d49ca9f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910611270728p36e58e08w6cc7a2989b7843ce@mail.gmail.com> <456B057E.4000904@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Git Mailing List" Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=L+JQcbSgb4r8fhTrj8SQciJAFRby1WxVe5W4pkQf5+QN3Piq+9lZmZShlnC9vXPStZARn8Q3dTJW/RNNUQ1GmaAmv8ESVru8IluyFJpcQIwcI0Ogaz6Tjon6tPgj3U75Ww9IMc7gLbpoUT46z2V8pj+qyzOjCNMhPizioJdVGjI= In-Reply-To: <456B057E.4000904@shadowen.org> Content-Disposition: inline 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 1Goj6l-0002Su-6z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:13:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757090AbWK0QNN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:13:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758352AbWK0QNN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:13:13 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.206]:52000 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757090AbWK0QNL (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:13:11 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s1so692637nze for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.66.13 with SMTP id t13mr13498691pyk.1164643990580; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.72.13 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:13:10 -0800 (PST) To: "Andy Whitcroft" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On 11/27/06, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > In the other thread we are discussing the conversion of Mozilla CVS to > > git format. This is something that has to be done but it is not the > > only issue. Without a native Windows port they won't even consider > > using git. There is also the risk that the features needed by Mozilla > > will be completed after they choose to use a different SCM. > > > > Even if we implement all of the needed features git still needs to win > > the competition against the other possible choices. The last I heard > > the leading candiate is SVN/SVK. > > Do we need to worry too much about taking over the world in one day? > Yes of course git is _the_ superior solution etc, but too many new users > at once is always painful. > > I think you are more likely to win letting them convert over to SVN. > From there people naturally start using git mirrors from the SVN trunk. > 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 with > time the project will migrate, but I am happy other git users are happy > 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. -- Jon Smirl