From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:50:31 GMT Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git Message-ID: <20070714215031.GA3833@ugly.local> In-Reply-To: <20070714195252.GB11010@thyrsus.com> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:52:52PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > That being the case, two-step conversion with tools that import CVS to > SVN and export from SVN to whatever actually works extremely well. > well, yes. hoooowever ... you are missing a few details: - conversion time. until we have incremental conversions, this is absolutely critical to many organizations. - psychology. cvs2xxx is simpler than cvs2svn + svn2xxx. it's also sort of a mindset thing. don't underestimate this. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.