From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:06:57 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20130423210657.GA32382@thyrsus.com> References: <323381594.20130414121834@gmail.com> <673219382.20130414124800@gmail.com> <20130414113351.GA1299@thyrsus.com> <1762779000.20130415215818@gmail.com> <20130418094326.GB11038@thyrsus.com> <214169596.20130420142251@gmail.com> <20130423175000.GA25994@thyrsus.com> <538486753.20130423223007@gmail.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ilya Basin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 23 23:07:30 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 1UUkQx-0001j7-E0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:07:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757268Ab3DWVHS (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:07:18 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:42120 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757018Ab3DWVHP (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:07:15 -0400 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4DB0940624; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:06:57 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <538486753.20130423223007@gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ilya Basin : > For new branches the 'from' command can refer the common ancestor in > an existing branch. For example: > > /----------E thebranch > / > A---B---C---D master > > Commit E is newer than D; we already imported D; thebranch is new. > Instead of: > from refs/heads/thebranch^0 > refer the parent as: > from refs/heads/master^2 Understood. Do you actually need this much generality in practice, or is it a theoretical case? > OK, something's wrong with the man page: starting with '-A' the > description is unstructured: Interesting. The aciidoc parser got a little confused, but inserting some blank lines fixed it. -- Eric S. Raymond