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Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 06:39 UTC
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<20061121063934.GA3332@spearce.org>
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> brendan said SVN is likely for the main Mozilla repo and monotone for
> the new Mozilla 2 work. No native win32 caused git to be immediately
> discarded.

Yea, that lack of native win32 seems to be one of a number of blockers for people switching their projects onto Git.

I think there's a number of issues that are keeping people from switching to Git and are instead causing them to choose SVN, hg or Monotone:

  - No GUI.
  - No native win32 installation.
  - CVS import fails on some projects (e.g. Mozilla).
  - Confusing documentation.
  - pull/merge debate.
  - Fear of hash conflicts corrupting a repository.

I think Junio has solved the pull/merge debate issue. We've talked the hash conflict issue to death, but some new people still haven't read those threads (or won't believe them). I know people are trying to work on improving the documentation, but there is obviously still room for improvements.

Right now I'm trying to work on the no GUI problem with git-gui...
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Message 7 of 30 in “Some tips for doing a CVS importer”
  1. Jon SmirlNov 20, 2006
  2. Martin LanghoffNov 20, 2006
  3. Jon SmirlNov 20, 2006
  4. Martin LanghoffNov 21, 2006
  5. Carl WorthNov 21, 2006
  6. Jon SmirlNov 21, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  8. lamikrNov 21, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  10. Robin RosenbergNov 23, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceNov 25, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  13. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
  15. Johannes SixtNov 23, 2006
  16. Martin LanghoffNov 21, 2006
  17. Jon SmirlNov 21, 2006
  18. Marko MacekNov 26, 2006
  19. Jon SmirlNov 26, 2006
  20. Marko MacekNov 26, 2006
  21. Jon SmirlNov 26, 2006
  22. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  24. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  25. Markus SchiltknechtNov 27, 2006
  26. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  27. Markus SchiltknechtNov 28, 2006
  28. Michael HaggertyNov 30, 2006
  29. Daniel JacobowitzNov 30, 2006
  30. Jon SmirlNov 27, 2006

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