For me, having the CVS history in the mozilla-central repo would be
much more helpful than having all the different repositories in one.

Nick

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 11:41 AM, smaug <sm...@welho.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 11:29 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of some
>>>> *experimental*
>>>> read-only Mercurial repositories containing the combined, useful history
>>>> of
>>>> the various Firefox repositories, all in chronological order and stored
>>>> in
>>>> a more efficient format that is faster to clone and pull from and
>>>> results
>>>> in faster client operations.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Does this mean that it contains the full history including CVS?
>>>
>>
>> No. Adding a Mercurial repo with CVS history isn't on the priority list.
>> Make a case for it improving developer productivity and it could be.
>>
>
> Spending occasionally tons of times trying to find relevant code in viewvc
> (which usability is far from bonsai and even worse than hg blame).
> Is wasted developer time not a good enough case?
> Also, not having CVS history easily available reduces the quality of the
> reviews since at least I too easily
> give up looking at the blame if the blame is in CVS.
>
> Using gecko-dev is not an option since Github's blame chokes on any large
> files (which happen to contain
> most the interesting stuff).
>
>
> However, thanks a ton for having http://52.25.115.98/viewvc/main/ !
> That is better than nothing.
>
>
>
> -Olli
>
>
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