From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:21:18 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121222062118.GA31331@thyrsus.com> References: <20121220215638.E54BC44119@snark.thyrsus.com> <50D4199C.6000002@alum.mit.edu> <20121221104437.GA5244@thyrsus.com> <20121222034751.GA11635@book-mint> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Heiko Voigt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 22 07:27:13 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 1TmIYC-0008AJ-Pm for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:27:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750767Ab2LVGVn (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:21:43 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:50833 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750733Ab2LVGVl (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:21:41 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B04E74411A; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:21:18 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121222034751.GA11635@book-mint> 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: Heiko Voigt : > Back then when I was converting some repositories to git and I also > wrote a quick testsuite for cvsps in an attempt to fix the bugs but gave > up. That was the point when I wrote about cvsimports limitations in the > documentation. > > My commits can be found here: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git > > I just quickly checked and it seems that it does not run cleanly on a > modern Linux anymore. If it is of interest to you I can try to get it > running again. That would be helpful. Please give it some effort. I'm going to work on merging the cvsps patches Yann Dirson has been accumulating. -- Eric S. Raymond