| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Warren Turkal <wt(at)penguintechs(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SCMS question |
| Date: | 2007-02-23 16:55:52 |
| Message-ID: | 45DF1C98.9000305@dunslane.net |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Moreover work on things like bitmapped indexes that other people want to help
>> on is hampered by this need to be mailing around patches. If two or three
>> people submit changes (based possibly on different old versions of the patch)
>> the main developer has to merge them into his version of the patch by hand and
>> mail out a new patch. The whole point of a revision control system is to
>> provide tools to make that easier.
>>
>
> O.k. everyone pay attention, I am about to agree with Greg! ;)
>
> Greg are their tools to migrate CVS to monotone or whatever your
> favorite is? The reason I ask is that I migrate the CVS to SVN every 4
> hours I think it is and it isn't perfect.
>
Are you going to do trials for just Monotone, or will you include
alternatives like, say, Mercurial (which seems to have quite a bit of
traction, and should appeal to you as it's written in Python)?
There is a generic conversion tool called Tailor that might help you:
http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor
cheers
andrew
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