From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:33 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20131212183533.GC16960@thyrsus.com> References: <20131212001738.996EB38055C@snark.thyrsus.com> <20131212042624.GB8909@thyrsus.com> <20131212171756.GA6954@inner.h.apk.li> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Krey , Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 12 19:35:39 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 1VrB6o-00021Z-Ha for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:35:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751709Ab3LLSfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:34 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:41006 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092Ab3LLSfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:34 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7AF1C380445; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:33 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Martin Langhoff : > In my prior work, the "better" CVS importers would not have stable > output, so were not appropriate for incremental imports. That is disturbing. I would consider lack of stability a severe and unacceptable failure mode in such a tool, if only because of the difficulties it creates for proper regression testing. If cvs-fast-export does not already have this property I will fix it so it does. And document that fact. -- Eric S. Raymond