Re: [Lprng-devel] Moving to git?

[walter h. <wh...@bf...>]

Hello Bernhard,
thx for your effort.

i can not object the move the git.
personally i feel that CVS is more than enough
but since sourceforge does not like CVS (but i read
several people still like it, like me).

It is bad that this happens when we try to get the latest release out.

re,
 wh


Am 03.02.2011 18:32, schrieb Bernhard R. Link:
> As sourceforge.net has still not restored cvs after the SF compromise,
> the CVS repository for lprng is still not reachable currently.
> 
> Given those problems and that sourgeforge might discontinue CVS
> alltogether in a not too far future (at least
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-attack-full-report/
> says they are "considering the end-of-life of the CVS service" it might
> make sense to switch to another VCS.
> 
> I'd suggest git, and I have prepared a git repository with most of the
> CVS history included, which can be previewed via
> 
> git clone http://132.230.30.150/~brl/lprng.git (it's about 28 MB).
> 
> As it is very annoying to make changes to a git repository after its
> publishing, any corrections to the history should be ideally made before
> that is moved to SF.net, if we decide to switch to git.
> 
> In this suggestion, the "master" branch contains all changes done in the
> CVS repository, starting its history with the imported 3.8.28 version
> (and not including the parts of the tarfile included in the CVS
> repository back then).
> 
> There is also an additional "all-history" branch having that replayed on
> top of a history of all the old tar files I still have imported into git
> with as little changes as possible (some fixes to CHANGES to make
> finding the commit introducing some change easier and a .tbz file
> excluded to save space).
> 
> 	Bernhard R. Link
>