From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131212183533.GC16960@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPiFC+CAhh1S6Wt0bO2pDrXWgBW7AEFahGJjq0W7rG9LfTb8A@mail.gmail.com>
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>:
> In my prior work, the "better" CVS importers would not have stable
> output, so were not appropriate for incremental imports.
That is disturbing. I would consider lack of stability a severe and
unacceptable failure mode in such a tool, if only because of the
difficulties it creates for proper regression testing.
If cvs-fast-export does not already have this property I will fix it
so it does. And document that fact.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-12 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 0:17 I have end-of-lifed cvsps Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 3:38 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 4:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 13:42 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 17:17 ` Andreas Krey
2013-12-12 17:26 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 18:35 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2013-12-12 18:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 19:08 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 19:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 19:48 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 20:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 22:51 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 23:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-13 2:35 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-13 3:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 18:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 18:53 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-17 10:57 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-17 11:18 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-17 14:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-17 17:52 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-17 18:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-17 21:26 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-17 22:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 23:44 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-19 1:11 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-19 9:31 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-19 15:26 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-19 16:18 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-19 4:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-19 9:43 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-17 14:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-17 19:58 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-17 21:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 0:02 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-18 0:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 15:39 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-18 16:23 ` incremental fast-import and marks (Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps) Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-18 16:27 ` I have end-of-lifed cvsps Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 16:53 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-18 19:54 ` John Keeping
2013-12-18 20:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 20:47 ` Kent R. Spillner
2013-12-18 17:46 ` Jeff King
2013-12-18 19:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 0:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-18 0:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
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