Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu Changelog Makefile Makefile.target TODO ae...

[Thiemo Seufer]

J. Mayer wrote:
[snip]
> Another point is CVS is an industry standard. It has many drawbacks but
> is prooven to do its job as specified in a very reliable way. For now,
> not such a thing for git, afaik. If it ever become the new industry
> standard, after having prooven its reliability and long term stability,
> then you may be able to expect everyone to use it.
> Did anyone has done a long term comparison of CVS and git running on two 
> copies of the
> same production repository and have made sure that any extraction at any
> time of any data (ie, checkout in the present and any date in the past,
> diffs, ...) of the two gives exactly the same result ? Please show me
> such studies and I may reconsider my position... If not, you can always
> use it, closing your eyes and praying for everything to be OK...

Not exactly a study, but www.linux-mips.org moved a fairly complex CVS
repository to GIT, and replaced the original CVS access with the git-cvs
daemon. No were/are no known inconsistencies.


Thiemo