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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