Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 11-10-2017 14:02, Paul Vinkenoog wrote:
> Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> 
>>> I am willing to spend some time to test and perform the conversion of
>>> the manual module to Git (and GitHub), so the commit history is
>>> preserved. If the consensus is for subversion, I can do that as well.
>>
>> I'll be doing a test conversion of the ODBC repository this weekend. If
>> it is quick to do, I'll also do a test conversion of the docs repository.
> 
> Thanks, that would be most interesting. I'm especially curious about
> the preservation of the history, including branches (not that we have
> many of those).

That should work fine. I previously did a conversion of the client-java 
module from CVS to Subversion (and then later to git), with preservation 
of all history.

If direct conversion runs into problem, I'll first convert to 
subversion, and then use the GitHub import tool like I did for Jaybird ;)

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel