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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:37:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130102183710.GB19006@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr4m331bn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> As your version already knows how to detect the case where cvsps is
> too old to operate with it, I imagine it to be straight-forward to
> ship the old cvsimport under obscure name, "git cvsimport--old" or
> something, and spawn it from your version when necessary, perhaps
> after issuing a warning "cvsps 3.0 not found; switching to an old
> and unmaintained version of cvsimport..."

This can be done.  As this may not be the last case in which it comes up,
perhaps we should have an 'obsolete' directory distinct from 'contrib'.

I'll ship another patch.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-02 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-01 17:26 [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-01 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02  0:33   ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02  1:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02  8:02     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-02 10:59       ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 15:39         ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-02 16:18           ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 16:32             ` Martin Langhoff
2013-01-02 16:41               ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 16:48                 ` Thomas Berg
2013-01-02 21:15                 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-01-02 22:28                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 23:44                     ` Martin Langhoff
2013-01-02 16:35             ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-02 16:43             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-02 18:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02 18:37       ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2013-01-02 19:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-03  6:34 ` Chris Rorvick
2013-01-03  7:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-03  7:47     ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-01-03 15:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-03 16:24         ` Michael Haggerty

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