From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:52:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvstrack: work on imported cvs and other git branches
Message-ID: <3599CEBD-F5AB-4DF6-BC00-372A9C710BEA@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707011852531.4438@racer.site>


On Jul 1, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
>> The background is, I plan to convince approximately 60 developers
>> to migrate from CVS to git and I'm searching for a way to start the
>> transition with some beta testers, while maintaining full cvs
>> infrastructure in place for the remaining users.
>
> Why not just cvsimporting into git, and then replace the CVS server  
> with
> git-cvsserver? That's what I did.

I thought about that but I don't know yet how to slice our existing
CVS repository. Most developers use partial checkouts.

But maybe I should reconsider and evaluate git-cvsserver in more detail.

	Steffen