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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
