Re: Incremental CVS update

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 6/23/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> cvsps keeps it's incremental status in ~/.cvps/*. parsecvs might want
> to keep it's status in the .git repository and use tags to locate it.
> You could even have a utility to show when and what was imported. By
> keeping everything in git it doesn't matter who runs the incremental
> update commands.

Jon,

what cvsps keeps is a cache of what it knows about the repo history,
to ask only for new commits. Now, cvsps will always write to STDOUT
the full history, and git-cvsimport discards the commits it has
already seen, based on reading the state of each git head.

So cvsps + git-cvsimport don't keep any extra data around, and I am
100% certain that parsecvs don't need that either.

cheers,


martin