On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:10:02PM +0000, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote: > >I was hoping for a timeframe for a split this week, actually. > So? Making a svn conversion takes less than 24 hours.
and verifying that it is solid takes how long? (same argument for git btw, the conversion is done, but we are still busy verifying its correctness.) > It seems that the only way to get "the xenofarm stuff and everything > else" to ever get to work with anything else than CVS, is to do the > switch regardless. good point, however it would be nice not to break xenofarm for the stable version, especially at a time when we are trying to stabilize and get a release out the door. once the release is made, the situation is a lot less critical > >Afterall, the mess can be sorted out afterwards in the exports to svn > >and git. It has been done before. > Yes, and it was a pain. Please don't inflict more. was the pain caused by lack of anticipating effects of making changes directly to the repo? could the pain be avoided by making sure that the copies at split time remain identical, and only changes made are through regular commits? greetings, martin.
