On 11/21/2013 10:15 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote:
It would be good to explore alternatives to Bonsai.
https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central is supposed to have full
CVS history, right?
Some concerns with that alternative:
- I think that repo misses some history from some branches of CVS
- I'm not confident that we've audited that whatever history is there
is complete/correct, and so losing easy access to the canonical source
could be problematic
- I don't think Github has a replacement for e.g.
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsguess.cgi?file=textbox.xml (find a file
in CVS history including since-removed/forked files)
- there's a learning curve to using any new tools
Usability of https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central is too far behind
bonsai.
Any other concerns with using Github as the alternative?
Are there other potential alternative solutions?
Gavin
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
On 11/21/13 2:43 PM, Laura Thomson wrote:
it's a search engine for some of our CVS repositories
It's not just a search engine. It's also the only way to get CVS blame
sanely without doing a local pull of the CVS repository or trying to make
git do something useful for you. And a lot of our code dates back to that
CVS repository.
-Boris
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