On 03/19/2010 05:56 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hey
>
> Tomorrow, on March 20 2010, it is exactly 12 years since the first
> release of curl. It is about time to freshen up a few things in this
> project.
>
> What am I talking about? Version control and Bug tracking mostly. I'll
> elaborate below. This is what I feel we should do to inject some
> freshness into the project and get rid of some of the rough edges that
> we still have.
>
> I'm listening to your feedback. Am I wrong or am I right?
>
> Version control
> ---------------
>
> CVS has served as well for many years, but time has come to finally get rid
> of it and enter the age of good tools. I'm using proper tools more and more
> at work and in other projects so the quirks of CVS has made me growingly
> uncomfortable over time.
>
> The only sane way forward as I see things is to go git. With git we get
> much
> better handling of patches (git am), we get much better handling of
> original
> author (git am and git commit --author etc) and it allows for a lot more
> fancy stuff that might be handy at times (like offline work and branching
> and...).

Sounds great. This worked for me (took a day though):

# ONLY do this on a clean cvs import tree, never a dev tree.
git cvsimport -o master -d :pserver:anonymous_at_cool.haxx.se:/cvsroot/curl curl

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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