From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: importing cvs logical modules Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:02:19 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <93c3eada0605242148u4656bc31p96d84a16703f0fe0@mail.gmail.com> <7vslmyzoit.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <93c3eada0605242302x24ca1272xd7bfc3a677b32845@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90605242316l4b0a0963m638f7a2e47936000@mail.gmail.com> <93c3eada0605242359k204bfe79vabc323eddfafa5f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 25 09:02:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fj9rm-0002lS-Mh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:02:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965019AbWEYHCk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 03:02:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965056AbWEYHCk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 03:02:40 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60853 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965019AbWEYHCj (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 03:02:39 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fj9rc-0002jP-Rx for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:02:32 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:02:32 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:02:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Geoff Russell wrote: > On 5/25/06, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On 5/25/06, Geoff Russell wrote: >>> The tight linkage is absolutely essential. >>> >>> When we tag the system, we >>> want to tag everything (not individually tag all 300 programs) >>> so that later we can to branch at that tag. Very few of our >> >> Then you want a single git repo/tree/project. The thing is how to work >> through your mangled CVS history. >> >> Two options there... >> >> - Don't. Import from after the last directory reorg or from your last >> interesting release. Keep the cvs tree for people who really want to >> dig into the past. this has several advantages, as initial checkouts >> will be faster, import times shorter, less pain overall. > > Yes, this is definitely on the shortlist of options. > If we can't keep all the history, we may as well make > a clean start. Thanks for the advice. Well, you can always copy history and graft old CVS history later. Perhaps when "bind" (or Cogito "bind lite") mature enough... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland