Hello, Jim! On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 15:40 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 May 2006, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > >> Why am I interested? I want to switch the development of GNU coreutils > >> from cvs to git. I believe you have a very good reason to talk to decision makers in FSF. Savannah is very poorly maintained, and I actually took one of my projects (Orinoco driver) to SourceForge Subversion. If losing a Linux driver is next to nothing, losing GNU coreutils is a big deal for the GNU development site. You are likely to be heard if you request git support. > I would also like to continue making the repository > >> available via cvs, for the sake of continuity. At worst, I can always > >> cut the CVS cord, but that's a last resort. Subversion is as easy as CVS for potential users, but it has a useful "log" command if nothing else. It also have real changesets, which means no more guesswork when moving changes back and forth. > > If you only want to make a cvs repository available for tracking the > > project, git-cvsserver is what you want. It is even faster than the > > original cvs... > > That might work if I had sufficient access to the system hosting the > public CVS repository. But there are restrictions (like no ssh access). > Currently I rsync the master repo to an intermediate site, from which > it is periodically pulled by savannah. Paranoia on both sides. > > If I end up leaving savannah, can someone propose a good site, > i.e., secure, yet with git and rsync access? Sorry, I don't know any free git hosters, but here's what you can do: 1) Pressure Savannah to support git 2) Use arch on Savannah 3) Move to Subversion on SourceForge, GNA.org or Berlios and use git-svn -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html