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...ve we made any progress on a potential git conversion? AFAIK the only > outstanding technical issue is the monotonic revision number question. > Personally, I have no nead for them but others have expressed > reservation about losing them. There are very decent solutions to the monotonic revnum issue (git describe, hooks/tagging), so that shouldn't hold back the transition. I suppose it's merely a manpower thing now, and the fact that Subversion unfortunately works "well enough" for the majority of peeps.

Have we made any progress on a potential git conversion? AFAIK the only outstanding technical issue is the monotonic revision number question. Personally, I have no nead for them but others have expressed reservation about losing them. Can we have a discussion about that to identify the core tasks currently needing monotnic revision numbers and how they might be accomplished under git?

...ss on a potential git conversion? AFAIK the only >> outstanding technical issue is the monotonic revision number question. >> Personally, I have no nead for them but others have expressed >> reservation about losing them. > > There are very decent solutions to the monotonic revnum issue (git > describe, hooks/tagging), so that shouldn't hold back the transition. That's what we need to have a discussion about. If those things will work for people, great. If not, we have some stuff to figure out. > I suppose it's merely a manpower thing now I'm not...

...seful. It can be hard at times to figure out what the initial source rev for a file was if the file doesn't contain that info and the user adapting the file/patch is not the author [who might erroneously be expected to know/remember:-] said info. # Before cvs diff -u will show the checked out revnum in the diff header. However if using raw files as the work base, without cvs, the file and all subsequent edits are devoid of original version info. There is no reference against which to do a cvs diff -ur <rev> if cvs is later adopted, etc. Especially if the history of the file is not known...