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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Max Horn <postbox@quendi.de>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>,
	Bart Massey <bart@cs.pdx.edu>, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
	David Mansfield <david@cobite.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cvsps, parsecvs, svn2git and the CVS exporter mess
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 14:57:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130105225740.GC3247@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130105151106.GA1938@thyrsus.com>

Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Michael Haggerty wants me to trust that cvs2git's analysis stage has
> been fixed, but I must say that is a more difficult leap of faith when
> two of the most visible things about it are still (a) a conspicuous
> instance of interface misdesign, and (b) documentation that is careless and
> incomplete.

For what it's worth, I use cvs2git quite often.  I've found it to work
well and its code to be clear and its developers responsive.  But I
don't mind if we disagree, and multiple implementations to explore the
design space of importers doesn't seem like a terrible outcome.

Thanks for your work,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-05 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-22 17:36 cvsps, parsecvs, svn2git and the CVS exporter mess Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-23 20:21 ` Heiko Voigt
2012-12-23 22:45   ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-03 15:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-01-03 20:53   ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-05  8:27     ` Max Horn
2013-01-05 15:11       ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-05 22:57         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-01-06 11:15         ` Michael Haggerty
     [not found]       ` <CAA6gtpky9JxFDdpLM6kY9su-9FWX8RoWHU4uptd_Zk+ZJuhrtA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-05 15:58         ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-03 15:51 ` Martin Langhoff

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