From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:43:11 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121221214311.GA29147@thyrsus.com> References: <20121220215638.E54BC44119@snark.thyrsus.com> <50D4199C.6000002@alum.mit.edu> <20121221104437.GA5244@thyrsus.com> <50D4B639.9000807@alum.mit.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 21 22:43:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmANk-0001Qz-2v for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:43:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751794Ab2LUVnf (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:43:35 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:49207 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468Ab2LUVnd (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:43:33 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 279C54411B; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:43:11 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50D4B639.9000807@alum.mit.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael Haggerty : > Perhaps your experience is with an older version of cvs2svn? Well, it has been at least four years since I ran it on anything. Maybe that counts as old. I'm willing to believe it's working better now, but I've had to deal with geological strata of nastiness older versions produced in various Subversion repositories (cleaning up that crud was a major motivation for reposurgeon) and I'm fairly sure I haven't seen the last such fossils. Every sufficiently old Subversion repository seems to have few. > If not, > please be specific rather than just making complaints that are too vague > to be rebutted or fixed (whichever is appropriate). I put a *lot* of > effort into getting cvs2svn to run correctly, and I take bug reports > very seriously. I can't be specific now, but that may change shortly. I'm putting together a test suite for cvsps with the specific intention of capturing as many odd corner cases as I can. (I just finished writing a small Python framework for expressing interleaved CVS command sequences on multiple checkouts in a way that can be easily run.) It wouldn't be difficult for me to test whether these break cvs2svn. You've established that someone over there is paying attention, so I'll do that, I guess. I'm willing to share my test suite as well. Do you have your own zoo of odd cases I could test on? -- Eric S. Raymond