Moving NetBSD from CVS to svn|git|hg|fossil

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

Hi,

There's been lots of discussion (although not here) about moving NetBSD 
from CVS to something else. There are many points to discuss, so it may be 
worth separating discussion in to one of several threads:

Discussion of the impact on the workflow of the NetBSD project.

Discussion about the long term maintainability of the commit history of 
the project.

Discussion about the tools themselves, how they'll be integrated in to 
NetBSD, and how we will provide services for older and current NetBSD 
machines.


Personally, I know nothing about any of these SCMs beyond basic use of 
CVS, so I'm mostly concerned that any new tools have minimal impact on the 
size of the OS (meaning not importing Perl / Ruby / python, et cetera, in 
to base) and operate decently even on modest machines (meaning one 
shouldn't be required to have hundreds of megabytes just to check out 
src).

John