From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Voigt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken. Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:01:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20121228230149.GA3575@book-mint> References: <20121228162025.8565E4413A@snark.thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 29 00:02:17 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 1ToiwO-0003XR-4E for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:02:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754499Ab2L1XBy (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:01:54 -0500 Received: from smtprelay06.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.104]:47943 "EHLO smtprelay06.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753969Ab2L1XBx (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:01:53 -0500 Received: from [77.23.67.69] (helo=localhost) by smtprelay06.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Toiw2-00071Z-Gd; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:01:50 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121228162025.8565E4413A@snark.thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Df-Sender: aHZvaWd0QGh2b2lndC5uZXQ= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:20:25AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The parsecvs code has been neglected for a long time, and the only > public version does not even build correctly. I have been handed > control of the project and intend to fix this, but until I do it > cannot be recommended. You mean: It does not build correctly with a current version of git? Since it links with the git source code it probably needs a version of gits source code around the time of the last commits. Maybe you could add that information to the parsecvs compile instructions? I think just because it takes some effort to compile does not justify to remove this useful pointer here. When I was converting a legacy cvs repository this pointer would have helped me a lot. It is the tool we were/are actively using to convert old repositories at $dayjob. Cheers Heiko