Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:50:31 +0200

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:52:52PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> That being the case, two-step conversion with tools that import CVS to
> SVN and export from SVN to whatever actually works extremely well.
>
well, yes. hoooowever ... you are missing a few details:
- conversion time. until we have incremental conversions, this is
  absolutely critical to many organizations.
- psychology. cvs2xxx is simpler than cvs2svn + svn2xxx. it's also sort
  of a mindset thing. don't underestimate this.

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