[MPlayer-dev-eng] old CVS repositories

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:32:22AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:54:32 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:28:47PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > 
> > > So my idea is:
> > > - do not convert dead modules, if needed provide a read-only cvs server
> > > for them, else forget about them. convert them automatically (no need
> > > to hand-edit them to fix conversion) if read-only cvs is too much work
> > > to setup. as an alternative we could provide a snapshot of current
> > > version and a tarball of cvs repository for each of them
> > 
> > I definitely will not set up a CVS server on mphq2.  So it's either
> > Subversion or nothing.
> 
> Then I hope you have some plan so that everyone out there who has a
> cvs checkout with some modifications in it will still be able to
> cvs diff (so that they can export their modifications to a fresh svn
> checkout).

Good point, I didn't consider that.  Still people can just copy over
their files to a svn checkout and do the diff there.

> Something like creating a cvs.mplayerhq.hu pointing to mphq1 and
> keeping it running during some times (at least one month ?) after
> the switch to svn.

mphq1 is not going to be turned off at least until we have moved the
mailing lists etc.  This is going to take some time anyway.

Diego