Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > >> The main criticism I have from a developer point of view is, well, CVS. > >> Enough said. Please please can we have an official git mirror? It makes > >> maintaining out-of-tree patches so much easier in the long run, and > >> therefore much more likely that we can pass the patches back upstream. > > > > We're working on it! I'm hoping to chat with Jeroen from Kolab about it > > again tonight. We've got a partial merge into git - but we just want to > > make sure all the tags and authors and stuff are imported properly before > > cutting over. And to give people enough warning to change :) > > Excellent news! FWIW the PostgreSQL team have been trying to switch to > git for the past month, and in the process have involved the cvs2git > maintainers and had some fixes committed over the past few weeks to > improve the migration process (note that they have also suffered from > having to hand-tweak the repository to fix various bugs in CVS). > > The thread about the entire process is very long, but for those > interested the latest summary is here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-09/msg00636.php. > We have a working sample, with a documented procedure, to move three CVS modules (cmulocal, cyrus and sieve) into one GIT repository: http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Drafts/CVS_to_GIT_Conversion#Stab_.232 There some about branch and tag conversions as well. You can find the result (which is preliminary!!) at http://git.kolabsys.com/cyrus-imapd.git. I'll be working with Dave to get this setup over on cyrusimap.org as soon as possible as well, but meanwhile, feedback is more then welcome! Kind regards, -- Jeroen van Meeuwen Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG e: vanmeeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxx t: +316 42 801 403 w: http://www.kolabsys.com pgp: 9342 BF08 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
