Re: The essential problems of moving from CVS

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:32:47AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2010-01-16 01:22 +0000 (Sat), David Holland wrote:
> 
> > But I don't understand this claim; rejecting some particular instance
> > of distributed SCM because that instance has currently insurmountable
> > technical problems is not "a decision not to seek the advantages".
> 
> This is where we disagree; you believe that the problems with git are
> insurmountable. I believe that a not unreasonable amount of coding work
> (to fix the conversion issues and set up scripts to deal with some
> NetBSD-specific usage issues such as $NetBSD$ tag expansion) and some
> changes to the way we work (such as a different way of dealing with the
> issues for which we currently use partial checkouts) would surmount the
> problems.

You are welcome to work on improving the tools. If only half of the
amount of wasted in useless discussions on this list was invested in
actually improving the issues that are already known...

Joerg