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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, infra-bugs@g.o, qa@g.o, council@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:18:07
Message-Id: m3fvfup1ho.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it) by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> "MG" == Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> writes:
2
3 MG> This means we don't have to wait till someone figures out the perfect
4 MG> way of converting the old CVS repository. You don't need that history
5 MG> most of the time, and you can play with CVS to get it if you really do.
6 MG> In any case, we would likely strip the history anyway to get a small
7 MG> repo to work with.
8
9 +1 on that. The cvs repo can be converted to an historical git repo on
10 a slower timeframe, and remain available as cvs until then.
11
12 That old-vs-fresh concept worked fine for other projects (including Linux).
13
14 -JimC
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