Re: is the proof in the pudding?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:54:12PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
 > It is difficult here for us to make a selection of a new version
 > control system based on reading and such. It is probably better to
 > learn by doing.
 > 
 > I'd like to suggest that someone set up a machine on which the current
 > NetBSD repository could be imported into most of the major modern
 > systems (SVN, git, hg, monotone, darcs, etc.) so that we can try them
 > all out. Nothing will be as informative as actual testing.

As you're perhaps aware, many people have attempted to import the
NetBSD repository into various systems, and as far as I know none of
those attempts has been successful to date.

Please go ahead and write conversion tools that work...

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost