Re: CVS woes

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 11/23/2015 03:46 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Following up on Stefan Husmann's question the other day: There's
> still no access to gnuplot CSV on sourceforge ("waiting for
> anoncvs_gnuplot's lock...").
>
> This is not specific to gnuplot: support tickets going back to
> 2015-11-11 complain of CVS hanging waiting for a lock, for several
> projects. I added one for gnuplot 3 days ago. Apparently none of
> these tickets has even been read yet, though some more recent
> submissions on other topics are already in the "pending" stack. It
> seems that CVS comes at the bottom of the list for attention.
>
> Any plans for gnuplot to migrate to git? That seems to be _much_
> better supported at sourceforge. I recently converted gretl
> (econometrics software on sourceforge) from CVS to git and it has
> been trouble-free since. If there's interest I can send my recipe
> for the transition. (There are several "how-to"s out there, but
> they're not all up to date.)

One of the requirements is that the git log output would have to be 
converted to ChangeLog format using some type of script for development 
moving forward.  And it would be good for the existing ChangeLog to 
serve as the commit messages for the initial git repository.

Dan