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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
