From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, cvsps@dm.cobite.com, smurf@smurf.noris.de
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport with cvsps output in commit msg breaks imports
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:58:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ei9p8knw.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101209220347.GA3180@shuttle.home> (Thomas Adam's message of "Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:03:49 +0000")
Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> writes:
> More specifically, the commit which I think introduced the problem, and all
> subsequent commits thereafter is here:
>
> https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux/commit/f0220a10b01a764e0dc52ea1b2407f58600a30eb
>
> Note that from this commit onwards, the commit *message* has a bunch of
> cvsps output in it. I can only surmise that this somehow causes problems
> for cvsimport.
The cvsps output is ambigous. If the commit log includes text that
resembles the patchset format generated by cvsps then git-cvsimport can
easily get confused.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 22:03 git-cvsimport with cvsps output in commit msg breaks imports Thomas Adam
2010-12-10 12:48 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-12-10 19:58 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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