Re: [boost] [git] [conversion] Schedule and remaining showstoppers?

on Wed Oct 16 2013, "Niall Douglas" wrote:

Before any of this, in my opinion we need to find out with real empirical evidence how good the quality of the git conversion is. That, in my opinion, requires a full build and automated test run for every matching git commit and svn commit going back through history to determine their level of equivalence, and at what point in history equivalence breaks down.

Never gonna happen. The filesystem structure is changed, and there's no reason to expect commits in ancient history to build. -- Dave Abrahams