From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Derek Mahar" Subject: Re: git-cvsexportcommit and commit date Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:30:52 -0500 Message-ID: <5f4b18bf0802100830w682c67e0r9886b2fe32ce3715@mail.gmail.com> References: <200802101415.00726.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <5f4b18bf0802100801t20952180u6afd1eeaf2fac17@mail.gmail.com> <200802101717.32747.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Robin Rosenberg" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 10 17:31:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOF5W-0005Xi-S4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:31:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751247AbYBJQaz (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:30:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751197AbYBJQaz (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:30:55 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]:2470 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191AbYBJQay (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:30:54 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so4487931wxd.4 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=YJlylR7fwLfqHgAJaDpNNKg5IQzEKXwCHT055fVIGvM=; b=NBlwg8dNeeeWmL9Me6ncAC96djHVSMBrNl76zYqOcVaPFhM6aAVq2wsPg6oogYLFbzsaGncb61eh1RNnVdBCa8dJHb0G0CkmyTIfbyAPb7A+3dovRfrrq33o3uAmsOUNrDq/wJpTLrGMHTGsvTNise5EvSLRxz1Y203Fuffqzcw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KwDMqwf1NWdL5yxXUbDYcz1HOIJCh+f5DnyrmS65TJF2HoeBuRirbIAJ1ctxvqrshn0pKtOChSdyOkiCR7qdf4wKqfOL/FVVTwWDV77VGZCGrH0XqaVF7B9RRoi5DyD+Fkz3R2lXdEfq1qIj3lMAHt8dbVJf6E5NsgN28b6SoUE= Received: by 10.143.40.18 with SMTP id s18mr711330wfj.168.1202661052487; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.177.13 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200802101717.32747.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Feb 10, 2008 11:17 AM, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > If you involve CVS (or any other SCM) you must rebase on top of the > CVS imported version, whether your repo is a clone or not. The changed > commit to me also means I can see wheter it s a pure git checkin or > whether it is from the official CVS repo, which is a "good" thing. Good point. I can also keep a second "pure" git clone of the CVS repo from which other users make copies. > > Can fromcvs read from a remote CVS repository via pserver or does it > > only parse the RCS files directly? I have only pserver access to our > > CVS repo, > RCS only. Note that sometimes you have rsync access. If not politely ask > the admin of the repo that you get read access to the raw files. (the CVSROOT/* > files are not needed in case that is a concern). Thank you. I'll try this suggestion. Derek