RE: [Monotone-devel] Re: newbie: Life after cvs-import

[Kelly F. Hickel]

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> Brian May
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> Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: newbie: Life after cvs-import
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> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Stephens <address@hidden>
writes:
> 
> ...
> 
>     Bruce> Anyway, I'm with your coworker: make a switch, keeping the
>     Bruce> CVS repository for history, and switch to something else
>     Bruce> for the future, importing whatever of the history seems
>     Bruce> practical and useful.  Apart from anything else, that
>     Bruce> should give you more options: you can rearrange the way you
>     Bruce> store things, you don't need to pick subversion (because
>     Bruce> subversion is the only thing capable of importing CVS well
>     Bruce> enough), etc.
> 
> I tend to agree. Unless:
> 
> * You have to continue using CVS for some reason.
> 
> * You expect to frequently need access to old versions and don't want
> to have to resort to using CVS for such cases.
> 
> * Any other reason?
> 
> The second point might be significant if, for example, there is a
> stable branch of the product in CVS and you don't want to keep using
> CVS to maintain the stable branch.

[Kelly F. Hickel] This is the issue.  We typically support a release for
18 months after it's release, longer in some instances.  Skimming the
trunk into mtn would mean switching between cvs and mtn for all bug
fixes for the next 18 months.

-Kelly

> 
> In general, I suspect in most cases it is OK not to worry about
> preserving the entire history.
> --
> Brian May <address@hidden>
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