[Xorg] Migration to tla?

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:40:36AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 3 o'clock on Jul 7, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > What are the disadvantages?
> 
> Mostly that it's not CVS -- once the repository moves from CVS, you can't 
> go back (and you probably can't go to any other SCM either).
> 
> You're effectively locked into TLA until someone writes a tool to migrate 
> a TLA repository to the next best thing.
> 
> This is the best reason not to move to subversion; it doesn't offer enough 
> of the things we want and yet still prevents us from moving to something 
> newer.
> 
> CVS is horrible, but everyone can import from it at least.

To be fair, TLA having the concept of changesets makes this a crapload
easier.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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