From: KESHAV P.R. <sko...@gm...> - 2011-01-19 08:02:06
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:46, Jason Fleischli <jas...@hp...> wrote: > Git is great for large projects and scales for thousands of contributors > which is why it was created by Torvalds,... for the linux kernel. cvs > works just fine for a little project like elilo with one guy with write > access to the source tree. Git has great features, and patch tools I > know but just because elilo is in cvs doesnt prevent you from pulling > elilo source into your git tree, creating your own git project with it, > and using your git env... Anyway, I know of GIT's use and value and > will probably move elilo to it but am not in a hurry to do so. (thanks > for the tailor tip, didnt know about that one.) > > I dont think gnu-efi is dead, but regardless this is "elilo-discuss" > and the wrong list for gnu-efi requests or discussions... separate > project. > I tried using tailor to convert from cvs to git (this is the first time I am trying cvs). There no direct or a 2 way git <-> cvs bridge like git-svn does for svn or like bzr does for many other vcs systems (but i prefer git). I have uploaded the converted repo to my github account at https://github.com/skodabenz/elilo_cvs_to_git_temp . The commit messages simply contain the date of commit and not the actual commit messages present in cvs. . I have attached the tailor config file I used. gnu-efi doesn't have any mailing list to talk about this. I thought gnu-efi is attached to elilo. Its cvs repo simply has the tar.gz files without the actual commit logs like elilo does. Do you know how I can communicate cvs to git info to them. Currently I use elilo, Fedora's grub-legacy efi and grub2 (x86_64-efi config) to boot Archlinux x86_64 system. Running GCC multilib 4.5.2 and binutils 2.21 . Thanks for elilo update. It boots Archlinux perfectly in tianocore edk2 duet (uefi 2.3 x86_64 firmware). Regards. Keshav |