>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
Robert> On 4/5/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does that mean you're going to have both CVS and git running at the
>> same time?
Robert> What am proposing is just this. Maybe it's the same as what you were saying.
Robert> convert CVS history up to and including release-5_24-base to Git
Robert> freeze the CVS repo
Robert> activate the Git repo
Robert> merge whatever has been committed from release-5_24-base forward
Robert> Instead of release-5_24-base, it could be any tag on the trunk.
Robert> If the Git conversion takes only a day or two, we could, I guess,
Robert> freeze the CVS repo while the conversion is taking place;
Robert> then there wouldn't be anything to merge.
That was my proposal: no simultaneous CVS and git. Just pick a hard
tag (I prefer the final 5.24 release), freeze CVS, do the conversion,
do some sanity checks, and use git from then on.
Ray, who still needs to learn more about using git effectively.