From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport-3 and incremental imports
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:43:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130121124340.GA32219@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130121120010.GE7498@serenity.lan>
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>:
> I also disagree that cvsps outputs commits *newer* than T since it will
> also output commits *at* T, which is what I changed with the patch in my
> previous message.
Ah. OK, that is yet another bug inherited from 2.x - the code doesn't
match the documented (and correct) behavior. Please send me a patch
against the cvsps repo, I'll merge it.
> Perhaps it is simplest to just save a CVS_LAST_IMPORT_TIME file in
> $GIT_DIR and not worry about it any more.
Yes, I think you're right. Trying to carry that information in-band would
probably doom us to all sorts of bug-prone complications.
Thanks for the good analysis. I wish everybody I had to chase bugs with
could explain them with such clarity and concision.
Sigh. Now I have to figure out if cvsps's behavior can be rescued in Chris
Rorvick's recently-discovered failure case. I'm not optimistic.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-20 20:09 git-cvsimport-3 and incremental imports John Keeping
2013-01-20 23:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-20 23:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-21 0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-20 23:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-21 1:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-21 6:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-21 7:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 7:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 9:36 ` John Keeping
2013-01-21 11:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-21 12:00 ` John Keeping
2013-01-21 12:43 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2013-01-21 13:27 ` John Keeping
2013-01-21 14:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
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