Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think in practice adoption drives portability more than the other way >> around. I don't think CVS became popular because it was portable; > Well, I think it became popular, because it had be

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 00:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I think in practice adoption drives portability more than the other way > >> around. I don't think CVS became popular because it wa

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Warren Young
Paul Smith wrote: Savannah does not support SubversionSo, I'm stuck with CVS, Maybe you can switch to Savannah's evil twin, Gna. http://gna.org/ ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On 9/20/07, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very interesting. If various projects flee from CVS to some other > version control system then I hope that the projects I am involved > with flee to the same system rather than many different systems. AFAICT the fleeing is mostly to exactl

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > You don't HAVE to install all 132 git-* commands. just plain "git" is > just hardlinked to all those different names. If you're happy to > ditch the git file manager, you can just intall 'git' and access its > subcommands as "git log" / "git pull" / etc. instead of "git-

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 00:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm fairly certain that's not the case. The primary advantage of CVS >> that got people to switch to it was that it did considerably more than >> RCS and had considerably more available administ

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 02:51 -0600, Warren Young wrote: > Maybe you can switch to Savannah's evil twin, Gna. http://gna.org/ The software I work on is GNU make. I don't think the FSF (who holds the copyright) would be too thrilled about it moving to Gna :-). -- -

Re: conversion to git

2007-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 17:16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 00:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > True, but do you feel subversion is progress? > > Absolutely. Significant progress. Well my experiences with SVN are different. Esp.