time to switch from CVS to Git, was: Missing mailings from commits
Subject: time to switch from CVS to Git, was: Missing mailings from commits
From: James Amundson
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:23:34 -0600
On 02/26/2011 08:31 AM, Leo Butler wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, James Amundson wrote:
> < 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
>
>
> Jim, I redid the tests using your git repo, and ignoring diffs
> caused by:
> -RCS-type headers in all files;
> -case changes in .li?sp , .el files
> the results look quite good.
OK. Great.
> You can find the results at
>
> http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~lbutler/cvs2git-v2/
>
> I put the script used to do the tests in there, too.
> I note though, that the tags+branches of each are not
> exactly the same.
>
> 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.
I'm sorry for using confusing terminology. What I really meant is that
I'm using an old backup of the entire CVS repository, which is in the
tarball at the url above. We should compare against that.
--Jim