Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:05:44PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> I'm going to start implementing the VFS-style union mount > functionality (http://preview.tinyurl.com/cpftg2). The current > strategy is based on forking off the unionfs code base (retrieved from > http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#unionfs). Ugh... Somehow I totally missed the fact that unionfs is a hurdextras project... Is it copyright FSF? Otherwise, it would be problematic to base anything on it :-( > I am going (rather naturally) to use git as the VCS for my project, > which rises the following question: how do I do the forking itself? Do > I have to convert the CVS repository of unionfs to git, or may I > create an empty repository, do a big push of all unionfs code there, > and start working in this repository? Definitely import I would say. Having more history is always a good thing. It will allow easily moving patches between the two code bases if necessary, for example. -antrik-
