From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:39:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git
Message-ID: <1149219593.5521.34.camel@neko.keithp.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606011936i725e8eb2h8c2357f3688da43e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:36 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Did I see that you can use CVS client tools to manipulate a git
> repository? Mozilla has a lot of users on other OSes besides Linux. It
> would be nice to change the core server over to git and leave these
> other users running their existing tools.

It's possible, but I would not encourage people to use this for anything
other than passive monitoring of the code; CVS semantics are really too
weak to express the capabilities of the git repository, so changes made
through CVS will lose information.

Git runs fine on Windows these days; asking people to use reasonable
tools to contribute to the project doesn't seem crazy to me.

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keith.packard@intel.com