From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The Big Switch to Git Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:06:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87myolpzov.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87abl1uved.fsf@gnu.org> <87iqzbloi2.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206526024 18923 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2008 10:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:07:04 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 26 11:07:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JeSXJ-0001S9-6O for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:07:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeSWh-0000xd-Rf for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeSWc-0000wb-PD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:06:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeSWa-0000w2-DM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeSWa-0000vs-3o for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeSWZ-0000UB-I4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JeSWO-0003w9-C8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:06:16 +0000 Original-Received: from 193.50.110.120 ([193.50.110.120]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:06:16 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by 193.50.110.120 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:06:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.50.110.120 X-Revolutionary-Date: 7 Germinal an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ltrw1aghV8Wa/mKYAF47qtn+RNQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7096 Archived-At: Hello, Neil Jerram writes: > After reviewing what others have said on this, I'm inclined to agree > with this lazy-import approach. OK. > Agreed. Except that I think that we should "cvs remove" everything > that has been transferred to Git (once it is clear that the transfer > was successful). (Because there should not be two possible sources > for the guile-core files, that can only confuse people.) Hmm, I'd prefer adding a `THIS-REPOSITORY-IS-DEAD' marker, as Han-Wen suggested. We should also ask the Savannah hackers what other options are available to somehow "hide" the repository without actually deleting it. > I think I can go ahead with this at any time, can't I? In other > words: ticking this option won't automatically do anything bad to the > existing CVS infrastructure, will it? Yes, you can do it anytime, and as long as you don't "untick" the "CVS Repository" feature, nothing bad will happen. ;-) Thanks, Ludo'.