From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:58:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <437E6AC2.3080905@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181554580.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>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 agree that in that case, the problem space is _much_ simpler, and you're 
> able to do much more. 
> 
> And I suspect it works well for projects with a few developers that can 
> just afford to do that. And it obviously works for a big project with 
> hundreds of developers that is forced to do it. 
> 
> But I suspect it's not the common way of doing things. There's already a 
> few projects that do the "maintain in parallel" thing, like the Wine tree 
> discussed a few days ago.
> 

Oh, agreed.  However, if you want to convert your master repository you 
may want to do conversion.

And in *either* case you may want to convert commit messages.

	-hpa