2016.07.05 13:39 "Re: [Tiff] git version control", by Bob Friesenhahn

On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, rleigh@codelibre.net wrote:

Revisiting this thread from December 2012 http://www.asmail.be/msg0054798531.html

Is migrating from CVS to git still on the cards? I'd be happy to volunteer to repeat the conversion for the current state of the CVS repository--I've done it for several projects and I'd be happy to dust off my skills and do this for libtiff as well.

A volunteer has already been maintaining a Git mirror on github. If we switch to Git, we would surely start with this mirror.

To echo some of the sentiments in that thread, I think that a modern system like git would make the project much more accessible for others to contribute to. Speaking for myself, previously a heavy CVS user in the late '90s-mid 2000s, I've replaced CVS with git for nearly a decade now, and even I find it a struggle to use after using modern VCSes.

My own Git skills are not great (they are polished with Mercurial) but definitely a distributed changeset-oriented VCS would be of significant benefit to the project.

Bob
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