[MPlayer-dev-eng] old CVS repositories

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:22:26 +0100
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:32:22AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:54:32 +0100
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:28:47PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So my idea is:
> > > > - do not convert dead modules, if needed provide a read-only cvs server
> > > > for them, else forget about them. convert them automatically (no need
> > > > to hand-edit them to fix conversion) if read-only cvs is too much work
> > > > to setup. as an alternative we could provide a snapshot of current
> > > > version and a tarball of cvs repository for each of them
> > > 
> > > I definitely will not set up a CVS server on mphq2.  So it's either
> > > Subversion or nothing.
> > 
> > Then I hope you have some plan so that everyone out there who has a
> > cvs checkout with some modifications in it will still be able to
> > cvs diff (so that they can export their modifications to a fresh svn
> > checkout).
> 
> Good point, I didn't consider that.  Still people can just copy over
> their files to a svn checkout and do the diff there.

Only if they remember what files they modified, and if those files
haven't changed in CVS/SVN in the meantime.

Aurel