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Re: onwards to git
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I've found it's useful to manage the switch like this:
> >
> > 1) announce that the git repo is now "upstream"
> > 2) add a commit hook prohibiting commits to the cvs repository
> > 3) stop the cvs-to-git mirroring process
> > 4) cvs-remove all files and add a sole file, README-moved-to-git
>
> Frankly I don't think this level of formality is really needed for ports.
> But I suppose it won't hurt.
On the whole I think the way that's most helpful for people with existing
checkouts (possibly modified) is not to cvs-remove the files (at least for
a while after the move), just add README-moved-to-git and disallow all
future CVS checkins; give people a reasonable amount of time to move to
git checkouts without making the files suddenly vanish from the existing
checkouts.
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Joseph S. Myers
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