---- "J. Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:14 +0200, Luca wrote: > > On 9/17/07, Andreas Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Am 17.09.2007 um 14:18 schrieb Christian MICHON: > > > > > > > On 9/17/07, Philip Boulain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>>>> DON'T DO THIS KIND OF COMMIT AGAIN, PLEASE. > > > >>>>> if we were using git (but you can do it locally anyway), you > > > >>>>> would not > > > >>>>> have these conflicts problems... > > > >>>> Maybe... but Savannah uses a CVS frontend, as far as I know... > > > >>> Those are excuses. > > > >> > > > >> So is a "you should have used X" argument. It doesn't invalidate the > > > >> point that the commit was disruptive, and merely acts as bait for the > > > >> grand old "version repository" flamewar.* > > > >> > > > > > > > > since I mentionned "you should have used Git", I'll repeat: > > > > this commit was not disruptive to any of the Git users, and will > > > > never be. > > > > > > > > Evolve, or prepare to be assimilated into the Collective... > > > > > > Both the qemu.org and the Savannah project page only mention CVS. If > > > there are better ways to get the code then inform your users how to > > > use that. > > > http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=qemu.git;a=summary > > It's tracking QEMU CVS; you're right that it's not mentioned anywhere > > on the site (AFAICS). > > You can also DIY with git-cvsimport; see e.g. > > http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2006/04/tracking-the-ruby-cvs-with-git.html > > Another point is CVS is an industry standard. It has many drawbacks but > is prooven to do its job as specified in a very reliable way. For now, > not such a thing for git, afaik. If it ever become the new industry > standard, after having prooven its reliability and long term stability, > then you may be able to expect everyone to use it. > Did anyone has done a long term comparison of CVS and git running on two > copies of the > same production repository and have made sure that any extraction at any > time of any data (ie, checkout in the present and any date in the past, > diffs, ...) of the two gives exactly the same result ? Please show me > such studies and I may reconsider my position... If not, you can always > use it, closing your eyes and praying for everything to be OK...
The wine folks have been using it for a while, (maybe a year?), and they are prolithic committers. I see approximately 20-30 patches a day, monday-friday.
