From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Keeping Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:54:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20131218195450.GK3163@serenity.lan> References: <52B02DFF.5010408@gmail.com> <20131217140746.GB15010@thyrsus.com> <20131217210255.GA18217@thyrsus.com> <20131218002122.GA20152@thyrsus.com> <20131218162710.GA3573@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Raymond , Jakub =?utf-8?B?TmFyxJlic2tp?= , Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 18 20:55:09 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 1VtND2-0002D9-BH for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:55:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751008Ab3LRTzB (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:55:01 -0500 Received: from jackal.aluminati.org ([72.9.247.210]:35986 "EHLO jackal.aluminati.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898Ab3LRTzA (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:55:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jackal.aluminati.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6182CDA5B5; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:54:59 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at serval.aluminati.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.999 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.999 tagged_above=-9999 required=6.31 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001] autolearn=disabled Received: from jackal.aluminati.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jackal.aluminati.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2SMIei-MlJwU; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:54:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from serenity.lan (mink.aluminati.org [10.0.7.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jackal.aluminati.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6A139CDA55E; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:54:52 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:53:47AM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >> Anyway I hope that incremental CVS import would be needed less > >> and less as CVS is replaced by any more modern version control system. > > > > I agree. I have never understood why people on this list are attached to it. > > I think I have answered this question already once in this thread, and > a few times in similar threads with Eric in the past. > > People track CVS repos that they have not control over. Smart > programmers forced to work with a corporate CVS repo. It happens also > with SVN, and witness the popularity of git-svn which can sanely > interact with an "active" svn repo. > > This is a valid use case. Hard (impossible?) to support. But there > should be no surprise as to its reasons. And at this point the git-cvsimport manpage says: 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 cvs2git[1] or parsecvs[2]. Which I think sums up the position nicely; if you're doing a one-shot import then the standalone tools are going to be a better choice, but if you're trying to use Git for your work on top of CVS the only choice is cvsps with git-cvsimport.