Re: The first step away from CVS

[Frank Thieme <frank%fthieme.net@localhost>]

Hi!

> I've been having a look at Git and Mercurial and I've worked out that the
> first thing we need to do (regardless of what we do second) is to convert
> all the CVS commit messages to UTF-8. We will probably need to assign
> character sets to individual developers and then re-encode commit messages
> based on who did the commit. I'm not entirely sure how to implement this,
> but since I don't have write access to the CVS repository, it is SEP ;-)

I wonder why you have to convert all of them to UTF-8? At least in the 
Mercurial ConvertExtension page [1] isn't mentioned anything like this...

Bye...Frank

[1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension