From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:34:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <437E6505.8000201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181519100.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>On the fly conversion on CVS import isn't particularly crazy, as long as it's
>>under user control.
> 
> Actually, it is.
> 
> Why?
> 
> How are you going to feed your changes back to the original (and initially 
> main) project?
> 
> Hint: they're not going to pull from your git tree, are they?
> 
> Ahh. Maybe patches would be a good idea.
> 
> Ooops.
> 

You're assuming there *IS* an original (and initially main) project.

There is another usage mode: "we're dumping CVS and switching to this 
new-fangled git thing."  I have myself done this with several projects 
by now.

	-hpa