From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steffen Prohaska Subject: [PATCH] cvsimport: added warning doc, cvsimport may fail to handle history Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:42:42 +0200 Message-ID: <11839597623847-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> Cc: Steffen Prohaska To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 09 07:42:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I7m1G-0001In-HA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:42:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751069AbXGIFmo (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:42:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750989AbXGIFmo (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:42:44 -0400 Received: from mailer.zib.de ([130.73.108.11]:55458 "EHLO mailer.zib.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbXGIFmn (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:42:43 -0400 Received: from mailsrv2.zib.de (sc2.zib.de [130.73.108.31]) by mailer.zib.de (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l695ggaY001697 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:42:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (vss6.zib.de [130.73.69.7]) by mailsrv2.zib.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l695ggWb025759; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:42:42 +0200 (MEST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.1.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: There are discussions on the mailing list that git-cvsimport fails to handle history. This should be noted in the documentation of cvsimport. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska --- Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index fdd7ec7..b4a5ebd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ to work with; after that, you need to 'git merge' incremental imports, or any CVS branches, yourself. It is advisable to specify a named remote via -r to separate and protect the incoming branches. +There were rumors on the mailing list that git-cvsimport fails to +handle history correctly. Especially cvs branches seem to cause +problems. See the following thread on the mailing list for more details +link:http://marc.info/?t=118385570200002&r=1&w=2[http://marc.info/?t=118385570200002&r=1&w=2]. +Alternatives discussed on the mailing list are + + * parsecvs from link:http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/users/keithp/repos/parsecvs.git/[http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/users/keithp/repos/parsecvs.git/] + * fromcvs from link:http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/%7Ecorecode/hg/fromcvs/[http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/%7Ecorecode/hg/fromcvs/] + +As of July 2007 there is no definite recommendation which tool to use. OPTIONS ------- -- 1.5.3.rc0.22.gd22ed