Re: [jgroups-dev] Moving JGroups from CVS to Git ?

Brian Stansberry wrote:
> +1 from me on this, assuming you can preserve the commit history (which
> from some comments in the thread it sounds like you can.)

I've actually used 'git cvsimport' to import all of the JGroups commit 
history, took me 2 hrs, but if you clone [1], you'll see that all 
history is there.

> I've become a git fanboy. And I'm rapidly forgetting CVS details, so not
> having to occasionally refresh my memory for JGroups would be just 
> fine. :-)

OK, noted

> On 11/8/10 3:47 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
>> I've been thinking about whether we should move JGroups from CVS to Git.
>> A lot of open source projects are on Git, so there's plenty of Git
>> knowledge around, whereas folks might not know CVS anymore.
>>
>> I'm currently reading Scott Chacon's Pro Git book, to familiarize myself
>> better with Git, and I've also set up a JGroups GIT repo on GitHub [1]
>> to experiment with Git.
>>
>> If we do this, then a good time would be for 3.0. However, as the
>> migration from CVS seems trivial, maybe we could even do it for 2.12.
>> I'll be able to make a more informed decision once I'm done with the 
>> book.
>>
>> Opinions ?
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/belaban/JGroups
>>
>
>

-- 
Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss

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