Re: Repository conversion

[Clark G. <cla...@fa...>]

I've been thinking for some time I might just do an hg conversion for the good of the order, at least to demonstrate. I agree with Eric - once a decision is made, you're better off to write up a little "how to" and have a flag day. Or two. ;-)

On Feb 24, 2014 10:22 AM, Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...> wrote:
>
> On 02/24/2014 08:30 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: 
>
> > (2) Where do you want to land? 
> > 
> > As bzr is now moribund, the realistic alternatives are Subversion, 
> > git, and hg.  But I mention Subversion only for completeness; the 
> > advantages of distributed VCS are huge and if you're going to incur 
> > the transition costs of moving away from CVS either git or hg would 
> > have a much higher functional payoff. 
>
> A few days ago I was thinking that perhaps a conversion to both git/hg 
> could be done and for a month the developers try to keep cvs/git/hg in 
> sync and at the end of the month decide which is preferred.  The summer 
> months are usually when there is most free time for that sort of thing. 
>
> Dan