Moving Bugzilla to git?

[Stephanie Daugherty]

There seems to be sufficient bidirectional support between bzr and git to
at least be able to maintain a workable mirror without the same level of
overhead that continuing to support CVS requires..


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Frédéric Buclin <lpsolit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 25. 10. 13 14:08, Gervase Markham a écrit :
> > I realise that moving to git is some work, but why do you link it to
> > upgrading to another release?
>
> Because the problem to upgrade to 4.4 was that it was available on bzr
> only, while 4.0 was the last branch available on CVS. So let's say that
> 4.0.11 was only available on bzr for some reason, then I would have been
> unable to upgrade from  4.0.x to 4.0.y (y > x). If you decide to do that
> for e.g. Bugzilla 4.4 and for some reason git cannot be installed, then
> you would have the same problem, i.e. unable to upgrade from 4.4.x to
> 4.4.y. One could say I could use tarballs or diffs, but that's more work.
>
> LpSolit
>
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