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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
	Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:18:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124191845.GS7498@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vip6ndveb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

git-cvsimport relies on version 2 of cvsps and does not work with the
new version 3.  Since cvsps 3.x does not currently work as well as
version 2 for incremental import, document this fact.

Specifically, there is no way to make new git-cvsimport that supports
cvsps 3.x and have a seamless transition for existing users since cvsps
3.x needs a time from which to continue importing and git-cvsimport does
not save the time of the last import or import into a specific namespace
so there is no safe way to calculate the time of the last import.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
---
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:04:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Care to roll a proper patch with a log message?  I'll discard the
> topic for now and replace it with your documentation update.

Here it is.

 Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 9d5353e..f059ea9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered
+deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later.  If you are
+performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
+link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
+link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs].
+
 Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new
 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
 
-- 
1.8.1

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22 22:44 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2013, #08; Tue, 22) Junio C Hamano
2013-01-22 23:45 ` John Keeping
2013-01-23  0:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23  9:28     ` John Keeping
2013-01-23 13:26       ` Chris Rorvick
2013-01-23 13:55         ` John Keeping
2013-01-23 17:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 21:12         ` John Keeping
2013-01-24  5:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-24 19:18             ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-01-24 20:04               ` [PATCH] git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated Junio C Hamano
2013-01-24 20:13                 ` John Keeping
2013-01-24 20:58                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-25  4:55           ` What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2013, #08; Tue, 22) Chris Rorvick
2013-01-25  9:09             ` John Keeping

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