Discourage cvs-import (was: Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070222) FESCO meeting)

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 08:25 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 22.02.2007 01:14, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Brian Pepple wrote:
> >> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- MISC -- cvs-import changes 
> > cvs-import.sh Safety Issues
> > ===========================
> > - Discourage cvs-import if this is not the initial import into empty 
> > directories?
> 
> FESCo IIRC (there was no public summary of the meeting afaik) agreed on 
> the FUDCon 2007 meeting to discourage the use of cvs-import and thus 
> remove the section that describes its use from the wiki (e.g. 
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingCvsFaq ). The discussion 
> further settled on "it would be nice if someone improves the cvs-import 
> script to force users to look at a diff before the import. But if nobody 
> works on this lets ignore the problem for a little bit longer, as we 
> probably get a new VCS in less then one year anyway -- when doing that 
> switch make sure users get a diff presented".

Please at least don't break cvs-import.sh for non-initial commits.  It's
_way_ more pleasant to use when updating tarballs than make upload or
make new-source.

- ajax