time to switch from CVS to Git, was: Missing mailings from commits

On 2/26/11 9:31 AM, Leo Butler wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, James Amundson wrote:
>
> < On 02/24/2011 12:29 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> < 
> < >   You can see that cvs2git does a rather bad job in
> < >   comparison to git-cvsimport: the diff file sizes
> < >   are
> < > 
> < >                    Release 5.22        5.23
> < >   git cvsimport    3.3K                3.3K
> < >   cvs2git          363K                691K
> < > 
> < >   I've not bothered with more testing on earlier branches.
> < >   Note that cvs2git doesn't like $Id$ tags, and it has lost
> < >   files (including in the Attic).
> < 
> < OK, it looks like I made the wrong choice in resolving attic problems. Let's
> < try this version:
> < 
> < 	http://amundson-long.net/maximav2.git.tar.bz2
> < 
> < Some notes:
> < 	1) We should ignore special RCS comments, e.g.,
> < 		-# $Id: texi2html,v 1.5 2007/04/14 21:56:43 robert_dodier Exp
> < $
> < 		+# $Id$
> < 	    They don't have any real meaning in the git repository.
> < 
> < 	2) Since I'm using a cvs snapshot from Ray, we should be comparing
> < against that, not the current CVS. I put a copy of the snapshot here:
> < 
> < 	http://amundson-long.net/maxima-cvs-2011-15.tar.bz2
>  
>
>
[snip]
>  I didn't understand your comment (2), because I wanted to 
>  check how well the git repo's tags+branches compared to the
>  cvs repo's and I (think I) need access to the cvs repo
>  for that, not just a snapshot.
The snapshot I sent to Jim is a complete backup of the cvs repo.

I backup maxima to my machine at home once a month and the backup
includes everything, including the full cvs repo.   I keep the backups
for at least 6 mo, but sometimes more, depending on when I remember to
purge old backup data.

Ray