hosting git conversion of Fedora CVS tree on fedora infrastructure?
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 15:51:04 UTC 2007
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 08:39 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
>> Karsten Wade wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:01 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
>>>
>>>> The git tree is currently a read-only (slave) version of the CVS
>>>> tree, and I expect it to stay that way for some time. But even though
>>>> Fedora isn't switching VCSes at this point, I think it would still
>>>> make sense to have git/hg/random-other-VCS conversions of the Fedora
>>>> CVS tree publically available ...
>>>>
>>> +1 to the general idea.
>>>
>>> Are you interested in building and maintaining the solution in Fedora
>>> Infrastructure? Just asking as a bystander ... :)
>>>
>> What problem are we trying to solve by doing this or what added
>> functionality will we get that people can't get by just downloading a
>> snapshot and importing it into git themselves?
>>
>
> Downloading a snapshot of what? The entire repo? Do we have that
> actually available? Even if so, it's still not an incremental grab.
>
>
I think the closest is webfiles:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/webfiles/
-Mike
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