[OpenAFS-devel] Git conversion

[Simon Wilkinson]

Hi,

As some of you are probably aware, we've been talking for a long time  
about moving the OpenAFS source repository away from CVS, to git. I'll  
be talking more about this, and about some of the other new tools that  
this gives us, at next week's Best Practice's Workshop.

As a taster, I'd like to present an initial git<->cvs conversion. This  
is currently a work in progress. Please, do not base development work  
on clones from this repository, as it will be regenerated (probably  
many times) before the final repository is produced.

The repository can be cloned from: http://openafs-git.stanford.edu/git/openafs-test-20090527.git/
And a gitweb web interface is available at http://openafs-git.stanford.edu/?p=openafs-test-20090527.git;a=summary

Deltas are represented as references within this repository, in the  
refs/deltas tree.

What I'm interested in hearing at this point is feedback on the  
results of the conversion process, especially from those with git  
experience. Is the comment format useful? Could anything better be in  
the short log? Does the way that deltas are stored make sense? and so  
on.

For those interested in the technical background, a blog post  
detailing how this repository was produced is at http://blob.inf.ed.ac.uk/sxw/2009/05/26/converting-openafs-to-git/ 
  and the tools used to produce the repository are attached to http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=119102

Let me know what you think - we only have one chance to get this right!

Thanks,

Simon.