Re: Switching CEDET from CVS to a Distributed VCS.

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On Jun 29, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> For this reason I was wondering if the patch-bundle route would be a
>> clean way to push stuff to bzr.
>
> No.  Why do you think it would be any better than anything else?  Once
> you've got atomic commits, the rest of the issues are "what metadata
> does your VCS record?" which are pretty similar for the VCSes under
> consideration, and genuine conflicts, which have to be resolved
> somewhere.  VCSes aren't magic; when you and I make different changes
> to the same line of code, some human has to sort that out.
>
> The problem with bidirectional mirrors is that humans are "supposed"
> to be out of the loop at the point where genuine conflict occurs.
> Unidirectional mirrors don't face this problem, and with a local bidi
> mirror, responsibility for the problem is clear and equal to the
> person who will experience damage/inconvenience.

Well, that's precisely why I suggested the patch-bundle method in the  
first place - it would be local.

I would probably implement a script that does this, if someone else  
provides a working (read-only) git mirror of the bzr repository.