From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs. Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 07:39:33 -0800 Message-ID: <20130102153933.GA30813@elie.Belkin> References: <20130101172645.GA5506@thyrsus.com> <7vfw2k8t7k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130102003344.GA9651@thyrsus.com> <20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin> <20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 02 16:40:07 2013 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 1TqQQF-0004EN-LC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:40:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752736Ab3ABPjp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:39:45 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:60624 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752755Ab3ABPjo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:39:44 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id wy7so7947695pbc.33 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:39:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=9z6NsAbbDfnXSNyfMAYZPtsVUoobADmb5EJu5Wpe9Hs=; b=RqYweAleoMJdQBpb85/erp2UdjBxNKrdUufyOVxavaSa6fR4V02yDFzC8bYsiiIqzf qPCy4iH7rv31tJ9gq6OE2lYGAp+v0b755T+Zn+bSDJznOiO8G00xEYGQfdWfTQKt/05X n/pwVoRDmPdb0IkpizCm8kt0WB8VwnQNKRfVE9RBLjoMVeJjUyAaJtQgwxGZQMzjeMgl qNQnwF2nF+ILMCkMbUcDdgQFYOkItOKi16ygyptCRn/Jd7vc/NJutCfNR+A0m7HzXEZ8 A34t9jP+SbTMy8zH4d0uKxohCYw+/ADhN+qh/4jP1eKJfd+SDQ72p4B3LR1zM49m0/rb bTeA== X-Received: by 10.68.232.101 with SMTP id tn5mr145709326pbc.125.1357141183679; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from elie.Belkin (c-67-180-61-129.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [67.180.61.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm29497829pax.23.2013.01.02.07.39.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:39:42 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+51 (9e756d1adb76) (2011-07-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Jonathan Nieder : >> Speaking with my Debian packager hat on: the updated cvsps is not >> available in Debian. "git cvsimport" is, and it has users that report >> bugs from time to time. With this change, I would either have to take >> on responsibility for maintenance of the cvsps package (not going to >> happen) or drop "git cvsimport". That's a serious regression. > > How does going from "it silently damages imports" to "it fails with > an error message" constitute a regression? The former is already loudly advertised in the package description and manpage, at least lets you get work done, and works fine for simple repositories with linear history. Taking away a command that people have been using in everyday work is pretty much a textbook example of a regression, no? Hope that helps, Jonathan