Re: Licensing and the library version of git

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

On 7/27/06, Anand Kumria [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

So, using CVSNT (a GPL'd SCCI provider) and git-cvsserver would be a way
to continue.  I'm assuming that the primary functionality they want via
their IDE is checkout/diff/commit/log.

Now, that's a great strategy. Tell the large project you are
interested in switching off from CVS to git that they need to run a
CVS emulation gateway forever. I don't think a switch has much of a
chance of happening.

Oh, but it has!

The beautiful thing is that you can change to git _without_ changing all 
client software! Just to a git-cvsimport, switch, and some might not even 
notice that the server has changed behind their back.

And then, you can phase out CVS slowly.

BTW have you worked with MSVC's integrated source control? In every single 
case where I had to work with MSVC, I found I'm way faster with external 
tools (and it did not matter if the SCM was Visual Source Safe, CVS or 
PVCS). I know that my colleagues found the same.

BTW2 I agree that some deciding people would make MSVC integration a 
premise for migration to Git. So, why don't you give it a try? (I do not 
have a working MSVC setup, or I would help you.)

Ciao,
Dscho