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From: smurf@smurf.noris.de
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport "you may need to merge manually"
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:26:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060317072602.GH14562@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fylh20x6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

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Hi,

Randal L. Schwartz:
> Yeah, this doesn't make sense.  It used to "Just Work".  I can
> certainly add "git reset --hard" to my workflow, if that's the real
> work around.  And if so, the manpage should document that.
> 
The real workaround is not to import into live branches,
which is not a git-cvs-specific problem, so I didn't add that
to its manpage.

I'm not opposed to an appropriate patch if you think its necessary.
If you do, keep in mind that there are other git-*import scripts out
there which presumably have the same problem. ;-)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-17  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-17  2:37 git-cvsimport "you may need to merge manually" Randal L. Schwartz
2006-03-17  2:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-17  2:57   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-03-17  3:04     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-03-17  3:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-17  3:41       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-03-17  4:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-17  4:19           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-03-18 23:21             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-17  7:26         ` smurf [this message]
2006-03-17  8:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-17  6:46       ` smurf
2006-03-17  8:06         ` Junio C Hamano

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