On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
Hmmm.. Let's suppose for a moment that the modularization effort resulted in a repository which didn't include the current history. There's no reason that the old SVN has to go way. I guess it could be made read only.
Of course! That's been the plan all along, just as we didn't blow away the old CVS repo when we switched to SVN. The point at which SVN becomes read-only has been shown on the schedule and on the action plan right from the start. See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/MoveToModularizedGit and https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ModCvtSchedule
It would also be convienient that the web browsing feature be re-enabled.
Good point. The load on the IU server should be a lot less after we switch to GitHub.
That is, pre-history would still be available - just not a conveniently as now.
As Dave points out in a subsequent post, there will likely be several ways to supply history via Git in addition to SVN. --Beman