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Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps
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Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Eric S. Raymond<esr@thyrsus.com>  w=
rote:
>> You'll have to remind me what you mean by "incremental" here. Possib=
ly
>> it's something cvs-fast-export could support.
>
> User can
>
>   - run a cvs to git import at time T, resulting in repo G
>   - make commits to cvs repo
>   - run cvs to git import at time T1, pointed to G, and the import to=
ol
 >
> will only add the new commits found in cvs between T and T1.

I wonder if we can add support for incremental import once, for all
VCS supporting fast-export, in one place, namely at the remote-helper.

I don't know details, so I don't know if it is possible; certainly
unstable fast-export output would be a problem, unless some tricks
are used (like remembering mappings between versions).

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