From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Subject: parsecvs has been salvaged Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:21:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20130111112151.AFF924047B@snark.thyrsus.com> Cc: Bart Massey , Keith Packard To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 11 12:22:34 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 1Ttcgy-0007Jd-FU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:22:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753545Ab3AKLWG (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:22:06 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39205 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753169Ab3AKLWF (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:22:05 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AFF924047B; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:21:51 -0500 (EST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Since Heiko Voigt and others were concerned about this, I report that I have successfully salvaged the parsecvs code. I now have it emitting a correct-looking fast-import stream for my main test repository. I'm not ready to ship it yet because there are several features I think it ought to have before I do. An -R option like cvsps's; correct interpretation of a third timezone field as in cvsps; and, most significantly, I want to make sure it emits warnings for important error and problem conditions like unresolvable tags and absence of commitids. But these are all relatively minor issues. It is likely I will be able to ship early next week, at which point I will add support for parsecvs as a third engine in new cvsimport. This next step in the larger program will be factoring out the cvsps test suite and applying it to all three of cvsps, cvs2git, and parsecvs so I can compare results. -- Eric S. Raymond Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison, The Federalist Papers