From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 05:41:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Pointers to CVS 2 GIT imports and gateways
Message-ID: <46a038f905050822413ece89b9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <427EEB9E.9070701@zytor.com>

On 5/9/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> What would be the point?  The reason for bkcvs was that bk wasn't
> available to everyone.

Ease of transition for other automated tasks, perhaps? I don't know
what bits and pieces of infrastructure hang from the old BK-CVS
changeset distribution infrastructure.

Some projects do count on CVS gateways even if they use smarter SCMs.
This is not just because of licensing issues -- sometimes portability
and preexisting tools trump SCM changes.

regards,


martin