Re: The first step away from CVS

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:44:58AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> I've been having a look at Git and Mercurial and I've worked out
> that the first thing we need to do (regardless of what we do second)
> is to convert all the CVS commit messages to UTF-8.

The far majority of all commit messages are either ASCII or Latin1.
Ignoring the few remaining cases is not that problematic.

Joerg