Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else

[Eric S. Raymond]

Romain Francoise <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It is not yet time to anoint git (or anything else) as a winner,
> > even by implication.  We will need to carefully consider the
> > strengths and weaknesses of each of these systems in relation to
> > the specific needs of the Emacs project.
> 
> An important aspect for us is how well the system is supported on
> Savannah.  Git has an advantage here because we already have an
> official Git repo of Emacs on Savannah, with complete history dating
> back to 1985.  We just have to make it read-write.
> 
>    http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git

Hmmm...Romain, how is this maintained, is it with hook scripts from
the CVS repo?  Also, is ChangeLog information in the git history or as
separate files?

I believe lossless repo conversions to Mercurial and bzr from git are
possible.  And I seriously doubt the Savannah admins will refuse toi
support either if we request it.

So, this is very good news -- it will make moving easier.  But it
does not actually constrain what we choose.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>