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Git Over CVS / SVN
It looks like I am late to find out this cool feature, but I’ll share it anyway. The reason for that is I never expected such a feature could exist. So there might be others like me who “underestimates” 
how the open source world addresses any problem that “can” exist and before you know, the solution is there.
As some of you know, I am not a committer on any open source project [yet].
However, I do contribute to quite a lot of them. One of the problems when you do not have write access to the original SCM repository, your patches and changes start getting outdated / conflicted / complicated and it becomes hard to keep up with the changes to the original SCM,
- of your patches, some go through as they are, some with some changes while some do not at all.
- the original repository is in continues change as well.
git Seems to tackle the issue. I have come across with Taki’s blog on CVS to GIT and back that explains how to address the problem in detail. Although the blog focuses on “CVS” it should be pretty easy apply the same for SVN and GIT (over GIT).
For specific to eclipse users Alex has written a very detailed explanations how how Git for Eclipse users helps. And Boris was kind enough to share the list of Eclipse Git Repos with me.
With these introductions you can mirror a cvs / svn repository and provide your own sub committer group to create patches, pass them to the project, get the updates back.
Even this can be very handy to fork a project.
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