From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: Ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <516B8957.5010508@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130414113351.GA1299@thyrsus.com>
On 04/14/2013 01:33 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> [...]
> I wish I could point you at a convertor I really trust. I can't.
> There is a third tool, cvs2git (based on the analyzer from cvs2svn)
> that I don't maintain, which has problems of its own.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Again I request that instead of spreading non-specific FUD about
cvs2git, you describe concrete problems so that I can improve the tool.
So far about the only problems that you have mentioned that have not
been addressed have been stylistic trivia like that you object that
cvs2git writes its outputs by pass, to two separate files, rather than
writing all of its output to stdout, and that you are bothered that it
names its temporary directory "cvs2svn-tmp" rather than "cvs2git-tmp".
I would like to fix any conversion deficiencies you can find. I stand
behind this tool and think it is the best one out there for extracting
history from CVS.
Michael
--
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 5:07 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
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 [this message]
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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