this change would not force you to learn about or use git. Granting that git is a zillion times better than cvs, even so, far fewer people can contribute to a git repository than cvs.
As I understand it, the reason for the proposal is because branches are supported better in git. But isn't wanting to make branches tantamount to making releases? And isn't that something we already concluded (a dozen times) that we do not want to do for gnulib? Do we want to change the entire infrastructure to support it in an "ideal" way? Are the simpler solutions suggested by Bruno (don't run cvs update) and/or Paul (having a special gnulib-srcdir) for the run-up to a release unlivable? karl
