Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu Changelog Makefile Makefile.target TODO ae...

["J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:14 +0200, Luca wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am 17.09.2007 um 14:18 schrieb Christian MICHON:
> >
> > > On 9/17/07, Philip Boulain <prb@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >>>>>> DON'T DO THIS KIND OF COMMIT AGAIN, PLEASE.
> > >>>>> if we were using git (but you can do it locally anyway), you
> > >>>>> would not
> > >>>>> have these conflicts problems...
> > >>>> Maybe... but Savannah uses a CVS frontend, as far as I know...
> > >>> Those are excuses.
> > >>
> > >> So is a "you should have used X" argument. It doesn't invalidate the
> > >> point that the commit was disruptive, and merely acts as bait for the
> > >> grand old "version repository" flamewar.*
> > >>
> > >
> > > since I mentionned "you should have used Git", I'll repeat:
> > > this commit was not disruptive to any of the Git users, and will
> > > never be.
> > >
> > > Evolve, or prepare to be assimilated into the Collective...
> >
> > Both the qemu.org and the Savannah project page only mention CVS. If
> > there are better ways to get the code then inform your users how to
> > use that.

> http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=qemu.git;a=summary
> It's tracking QEMU CVS; you're right that it's not mentioned anywhere
> on the site (AFAICS).
> You can also DIY with git-cvsimport; see e.g.
> http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2006/04/tracking-the-ruby-cvs-with-git.html

Another point is CVS is an industry standard. It has many drawbacks but
is prooven to do its job as specified in a very reliable way. For now,
not such a thing for git, afaik. If it ever become the new industry
standard, after having prooven its reliability and long term stability,
then you may be able to expect everyone to use it.
Did anyone has done a long term comparison of CVS and git running on two copies of the
same production repository and have made sure that any extraction at any
time of any data (ie, checkout in the present and any date in the past,
diffs, ...) of the two gives exactly the same result ? Please show me
such studies and I may reconsider my position... If not, you can always
use it, closing your eyes and praying for everything to be OK...

Regards.

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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