Re: gitweb wishlist

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 24, 2005, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241146500.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050524182951.GB9537@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> >  - name translation doesn't exist (so all of Peters changesets get 
> >    reported as author "hpa <hpa>")
> 
> I pick that up.

Note that one advantage of the unconverted output is that while it's unreadable and not very helpful, it _is_ the raw output from CVS. Again, that means that everybody will convert the same CVS archive into exactly the same git tree, and that means (among other things) that you can then immediately merge between the trees.

Perhaps more interestingly, it should also mean that you can _continue_ to use CVS, then re-convert it at a later date, and I think you should be able to merge with somebody who has been using git in the meantime.

In contrast, if you have fancy name translation, the converted tree will obviously depend on your translation rules.

I dunno. Maybe the advantages of having nice names outweigh the disadvantage of possibly generating incompatible trees.

			Linus