Re: Migrating away from CVS? was: [temporal snapshot of cvs source is prepared]

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:18, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 12:05 AM, Tait wrote:
>>
>> Importing history from CVS to either
>> git or Mercurial is relatively pain-free.

... and already done.

> That's good, because we don't want to lose the history.  (In fact,
> someone should archive the revision history somewhere from time to time.)

With git (or mercurial) everyone who fetches the repository gets the
whole history. So if someone deletes the repository on server, the
copies will still be around at every developer. If somebody would
delete CVS or SVN repository and if nobody had a backup, all the
history would be lost.

Neither git nor mercurial are capable of tracking timestamps of files
and one cannot have $Version:$ headers expanded automatically though.

Mojca