Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: If done right, the move to git can still service CVS requests in some capacity...  that may make the transition a little less abrupt and painful. Perhaps.  But git-cvsserver is a rather limited crutch

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: branches AFAIK. (It's not that awkward, but for developers resisting change... ah, every changed comma is a slight :-) ... ). To be clear, I mean developers with better things to do with their time than dealing

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 04:57:03PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Chambers wrote: If I understand what is happening now (and over the past weekend), the datacenter machines are moving to a new location, AND the package building is moving from cvs to git (will be, or already in

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:43:33AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 04:57:03PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Chambers wrote: If I understand what is happening now (and over the past weekend), the datacenter machines are moving to a new location, AND the

Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Chambers
If I understand what is happening now (and over the past weekend), the datacenter machines are moving to a new location, AND the package building is moving from cvs to git (will be, or already in process)? If so, mainly the git move, will we as users/testers/etc notice any changes - via emails

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mike Chambers wrote: If I understand what is happening now (and over the past weekend), the datacenter machines are moving to a new location, AND the package building is moving from cvs to git (will be, or already in process)? Only the former is taking place now. A move from cvs to git is

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: If I understand what is happening now (and over the past weekend), the datacenter machines are moving to a new location, AND the package building is moving from cvs to git (will be, or already in process)? The move from CVS

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 12/14/2009 04:57 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Chambers wrote: If I understand what is happening now (and over the past weekend), the datacenter machines are moving to a new location, AND the package building is moving from cvs to git (will be, or already in process)? Only the former is

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jeff Garzik wrote: If done right, the move to git can still service CVS requests in some capacity... that may make the transition a little less abrupt and painful. Perhaps. But git-cvsserver is a rather limited crutch that I can't imagine anyone wanting to spend much time on, just to let

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 19:55 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: I think of it less as a question of /liking/ CVS, and more an admission that a global workflow change has real costs for each individual developer. A flag day-style transition is clean and efficient, but often locks out developers who