Re: Qgit performance and maintain CVS environment with GIT repository

From: Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>
Date: Oct 19, 2007, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <200710191234.47944.wielemak@science.uva.nl>
In-Reply-To: <471871BD.7030608@bluelane.com>

On Friday 19 October 2007 10:58, Pete/Piet Delaney wrote:

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> Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> > On Friday 19 October 2007 02:22, Pete/Piet Delaney wrote:
> >> We are definitely not fine with CVS, the branch merging isn't
> >> comfortable. I'm just wondering about maintaining the existing
> >> CVS browsers and the build scripts if it's not a big deal. I'll
> >> try the git-cvsserver path. If anyone has any war stories to share
> >> on the path this would be an ideal time to share them.
> >
> > As for web browsing the history, our project was quickly convinced
> > gitweb is a lot better than cvsweb.  We are starting to get use to
> > basic git.  One developer works on CVS.  This is a bit handicapped,
> > but workable after a few patches to git-shell and git-cvsserver.
>
> Could you tell me a bit more about those patches and the need for using
> git-shell (haven't even messed with that yet).

One patch concerned handling "cvs update -p", which was accepted and I guess will end up in the stable version someday. One concerned handling "cvs diff -c", which I never submitted. I first tried a more general approach to get diff option processing complete, but I had to backtrack on that. Now I have a quite simple hack, but more complete coverage of diff option processing requires a bit more perl knowledge than I have.

I submitted a patch for shell.c to make it call "git cvsserver server" if a commandline "cvs server" was passed to it, so you can do CVS+SSH compatible to normal CVS. I got so many comments I decided to keep it for myself for now.

> I don't think we need to have any developers continuing to use CVS;
> but I may be wrong. I think I read that there's a limitation to being
> on the main branch and unfortunately most of out tags are on a release
> branch.

No, you can checkout any GIT branch as it it were a CVS module.

	--- Jan