Re: Moving CVS repo to something else?

[Marco A. <ma...@cs...>]

Hi

I did some research and I think I'd vote for git at this point.  Windows support seems better, while installing a Python application on Windows may not be *that* easy.

Marco





On Feb 24, 2011, at 14:55 , Raymond Toy wrote:

> On 2/23/11 5:15 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>> that has been posted to gmane.lisp.clocc.devel as well.
>> 
>>> * Raymond Toy <gbl.enlzbaq@tznvy.pbz> [2011-02-23 07:57:09 -0500]:
>>> 
>>> I converted the entire clocc cvs
>>> repo to hg using hg's builtin convert.
>> cvs2hg appears to do a better job merging commits into a single
>> changeset. here is what I got using it:
> I was trying to do this myself, but for whatever reason I'm not able to
> get cvs2hg to run.  Can't find the mercurial api, even when I followed
> the instructions about downloading a version of mercurial.  I obviously
> don't use python.
> 
> Also, I wanted to point out that maxima is also going through this
> exercise except using git.  Someone did some tests with git cvsimport
> and compared the result of that with the actual CVS.  The code for
> various labels was compared between git and CVS and they differ.  Does
> not give me confidence that things are working as well as they could be.
> 
> I suspect we should do similar tests with hg.  Granted, there aren't
> many labels or branches, but we should at least do a comparison and then
> decide if we care about any differences that show up.  For the things
> that I care about in clocc, I'm not too concerned about old stuff being
> incorrect with hg.
> 
> But, I think we should keep the CVS repo available for a long time, in
> case any one need to do some digging.
> 
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
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