From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:53:32 GMT Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml? Message-ID: <437E697C.7090307@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <437E6505.8000201@zytor.com> H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231