Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 08:39 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Karsten Wade wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:01 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
>>
>>> The git tree is currently a read-only (slave) version of the CVS
>>> tree, and I expect it to stay that way for some time. But even though
>>> Fedora isn't switching VCSes at this point, I think it would still
>>> make sense to have git/hg/random-other-VCS conversions of the Fedora
>>> CVS tree publically available ...
>>>
>> +1 to the general idea.
>>
>> Are you interested in building and maintaining the solution in Fedora
>> Infrastructure? Just asking as a bystander ... :)
>>
> What problem are we trying to solve by doing this or what added
> functionality will we get that people can't get by just downloading a
> snapshot and importing it into git themselves?
>
Downloading a snapshot of what? The entire repo? Do we have that
actually available? Even if so, it's still not an incremental grab.
I think the closest is webfiles:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/webfiles/
-Mike