Re: Changing source code control systems

[Kirill Smelkov]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:39:10AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> The time has come to move GNU make to a new SCM platform.  I know we've
> had this discussion before with (obviously) inconclusive results.
> However I really need to do some code rework, which would include some
> file renaming etc.
> 
> Since the last discussion the landscape has changed.  The first change
> is that I'm now using Git for my day job, so it's become the easiest
> alternative for me.  The second change is that there are a large number
> of other GNU projects (on and off Savannah) which have all switched to
> Git and been successful with it, so it's hard to avoid it if you work on
> GNU infrastructure projects.  Third, an msys port of Git is available
> which seems quite usable for Windows users who don't like/want Cygwin.
> And fourth there has been discussion about whether Bazaar is really
> going to make it going forward--not because of anything wrong with
> Bazaar per se, but just because Git seems to have sucked most of the
> oxygen out of the SCM room.
> 
> So, this weekend (planned) I will be locking down the CVS access to the
> GNU make source code in Savannah, and converting/importing the code into
> the Savannah Git repository for GNU make.  I've already done a number of
> test conversions locally and even made some local cleanup changes
> post-conversion, as a test.
> 
> I will ask to have the CVS archive set up as a read-only mirror of the
> Git repository for those who would prefer to continue using CVS: for
> commit they can email me patches and I'll apply them.  Also there are
> alternatives such as hg-git which is a Mercurial plugin allowing the
> Mercurial client to use a Git back-end repository: I've heard some say
> it's great and they use it every day, while others say it doesn't work
> for them... I don't know.
> 
> I hope this is not too problematic.  Let me know if you have
> questions/concerns/etc.
> 
> Cheers!

Great! FYI there is a (manually updated) Git mirror of GNU Make CVS:

    http://repo.or.cz/w/make.git


Hope it won't be needed anymore once the conversion is done.


Thanks,
Kirill