Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 18, 2005, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <437E697C.7090307@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <437E6505.8000201@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> 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.
>

I'm guessing Linus' scenario is more common. I do it myself and I'd like it to keep working.

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