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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:47:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130414094756.GA2278@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <673219382.20130414124800@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:48:00PM +0400, Ilya Basin wrote:
> IB> Hi esr.
> IB> In cvsps 3.10 the flag --norc was removed. It broke 'git cvsimport'.
> IB> Please give the option back and write something in the man page like:
> IB>     This option has no effect; it is present for compatibility
> 
> Looks like the tool is completely different. I think I'll have to
> downgrade.

If you want incremental import support, then that's the best thing to
do.  There was some discussion about this in January [1] and it doesn't
look like cvsps-3 has changed since then, so if you want to
incrementally update a Git clone of a CVS repository then cvsps-2 is
really the only way to go.

If you're doing a one-off import then I recommend ignoring git-cvsimport
and investigating cvs2svn[2] and cvs-fast-export [3].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/214258/focus=214305
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
[3] https://gitorious.org/cvs-fast-export

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-14  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-14  8:18 cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc Ilya Basin
2013-04-14  8:48 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-14  9:47   ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-04-14 11:33   ` State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-15  5:00     ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-15 17:58     ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-15 20:43       ` Jakub Narębski
2013-04-18  9:43       ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-19  5:29         ` Does git fast-import support deltas? Ilya Basin
2013-04-19  5:44           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-19  6:13           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-20 10:22         ` Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 17:50           ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-23 18:30             ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 21:06               ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-24  4:47                 ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin

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