From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:40:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer
Message-ID: <9e4733910611201740i348302e6r84c3c27dc27e5954@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vel9y5x6.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

On 11/20/06, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:29:20 +1300, "Martin Langhoff" wrote:
> > I see - thanks for the pointer. Sorry to hear others in the Moz
> > project weren't so keen on hearing about alternatives to SVN. Long
> > term only something like GIT seems viable for such a large project (in
> > terms of community, branches/subprojects and codebase).
> ...
> > Eventually the Moz crowd will outgrow SVN - perhaps we should be
> > parsing the SVN dump format instead ;-)
>
> From what I understand, mozilla is currently using CVS and is looking
> to replace that. The remaining options being considered are bzr and
> hg, (git having been discarded due to the lack of a "native" win32

brendan said SVN is likely for the main Mozilla repo and monotone for
the new Mozilla 2 work. No native win32 caused git to be immediately
discarded.

> client---the cygwin stuff is apparently not considered viable for
> whatever reason).
>
> -Carl
>
>
>


-- 
Jon Smirl