Re: Mozilla, git and Windows

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2006, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <200611271737.25733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910611270813g4ff982b0tbe6b57d1d49ca9f7@mail.gmail.com>

måndag 27 november 2006 17:13 skrev Jon Smirl:

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> On 11/27/06, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> > 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.

You can track parts of an SVN repo using git-svn. You rarely need the whole history to start working on a project.

In addition some nice soul with too much hardware will probably make an import and publish it and track it so everybody won't have to. We see a lot of git-tracked repos SVN/CVS already.