Re: Switching from CVS to something else

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:46:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Alioth also supports CVS, so if you want to keep CVS, you can do that as
> well. But I encourage you to switch to something else and I can help you to
> convert the repository if needed.

I would like the history of commits to be preserved as it is sometimes
necessary to dig contributor's information [1]. Can that be easily preserved
when switching to a different CVS?

I agree that moving the documentation CVS over to Alioth will have one
advantage (adding users, no need for DSA to get involved) but I don't really
see the advantage of switching to a different VCS for the DDP's repository.

Regards

Javier

[1] And the current CVS lacks this information for some documents when they
were last moved from other CVSs into the DDP CVS.