From: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -N option to force a new import
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:36:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194320170.21645.72.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfxzz51d7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> writes:
>
> > I had a git repository for development of rsync and wanted to start
> > importing the upstream CVS with git-cvsimport, but git-cvsimport saw
> > that the git repository existed and insisted on updating a previous
> > import. This patch adds an -N option to git-cvsimport to force a new
> > import and updates the documentation appropriately.
>
> Sounds like a useful addition. Tests?
Good call! As I was dismayed to discover, the existing files in the
working tree confused the import, so -N as I implemented it is useless.
I ended up doing the import a different way; I'll notify the list if I
get around to implementing -N properly.
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 23:28 [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -N option to force a new import Matt McCutchen
2007-10-25 3:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-25 4:01 ` Matt McCutchen
2007-10-25 9:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 19:45 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-06 3:36 ` Matt McCutchen [this message]
2007-11-06 21:35 ` Piet Delaney
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