Re: [Tinycc-devel] Is the CVS repository dead yet?

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009 15:10:32 Daniel Glöckner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:05:09PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 March 2009 16:20:28 Marc Andre Tanner wrote:
> > > grischka and Daniel you are the ones who actually committed code during
> > > the last few months, what do you think?
>
> I'm fine with whatever RCS is used.
> It's not like I touch the code on a daily basis..

I used to.  I stopped _because_ of CVS.

> And as has been mentioned the last time this issue came up, one can
> easily keep a local git tree in sync with cvs.

No, it's easy to mirror cvs to git, one way.  You can't take branch merges and 
renames and stick them into CVS without losing a lot of information.  (You can 
turn an egg into an omelette, kind of hard to go the other way.)

I maintained a mercurial archive for over a year.  Grischka copied the changes 
out of my archive and checked them into CVS, and then checked additional 
changes into CVS which were never posted to the list.  A lot of which was 
windows stuff that I didn't even have a test environment for, some of which 
was fixes to bugs that had never been reported to the list, some of which was 
just noise but you had to look at the CVS commit to figure that out, and CVS 
won't give you a list of changesets.

I stopped my development, development in CVS stopped.  I started up again, CVS 
started up again.  I lost count of how many times it happened (more than 
three).  I will not publish another line of code for tinycc until CVS _dies_.

> > Grischka put out the last release, therefore Grisckha is the maintainer.
>
> Grischka as well takes care of mirroring cvs on
> http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git

Ah, a mirror.  So CVS is the official repository and git is just a mirror.

Thanks for answering my question.

Rob