[Nut-upsdev] Time for a distributed VCS?

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/11/30 Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>:
> Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com>:
>> > It is still working fine.
>>
>> ok. if you one day feel a replacement is needed, you know where to
>> knock... (not on the head please ;)
>
> Noted.
>
>> but I'm all for a doc review from you, if you're interested in.
>> The docs (user manual, developer guide and website) are stable now,
>> though still evolving.
>
> Going on my work queue, but not likely to happen for a while.
>
> You mentioned earlier that the weirdness in commit 7 was a cvs2svn
> artifact. I know how to deal with that now.  It may result in a parent
> pointer for that commit that is slightly off, but given that those
> changesets were imported from CVS the 'correct' attachment point is not
> very well defined in the first place.
>
> Large, old Subversion repos with CVS in their ancient history, like
> yours, are the exact reason I created reposurgeon in the first place -
> I had to git-lift one of these (the GPSD project) and the random
> cvs2svn cruft offended me. I originally built reposurgeon to remove
> that scar tissue, though it has other uses now.
>
> Now I'm taking another whack at the problem.  By the time I'm done,
> repostreamer is going to end up doing better-quality Subversion lifts
> with less fiddling than git-svn or either version of svn2git.  The
> nut repo makes a pretty good test for repostreamer's armor-plating.

happy to hear that helping us will also help you (that's what I love
most in our Opensource world ;-)
any approx. timeline on your side for repostreamer completion?
just so that we can sync our devs underway Vs upcoming 2.6.3 release
(before Christmas) Vs end year vacation Vs actual repository switch to
git... As per what I understood, we will need to set a commit freeze
for at least a day.

cheers,
Arnaud
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