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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -A <author-conv-file> option
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:45:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8xtkbjnk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vzmm0g45a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
>
>> Anyways, I can keep this separate if you don't want to accept it.
>
> Oh, I haven't formed an opinion on accept/reject yet.  I was
> just trying to see if you are aware of that (especially Pasky's
> message in that thread) and thought about issues like "if in
> some repositories CVSROOT/users is in usable form then perhaps
> making sure -A file has the same format and suggest its use in
> the documentation would be nicer".

OK, after a little googling around, I have formed an opinion.  I
agree to the patch in principle, but at least it would be nicer
to use "CVSROOT/users" compatible format before giving it to the
general public.

	http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/cvs-1.10-to/cvsbook/main_70.html

seems to indicate that:

 - colon ':' is used instead of your '='.

 - RHS, if it contains a whitespace, is quoted either with
   single or double quote.

It was a bit unclear to me how quote characters are to be
quoted, so the patch needs a bit of research, quoting (when
writing out new records) and unquoting (when reading) in the
script, but otherwise I think it is a welcome change.

Opinions from other heavy CVS users?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-13  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-12 23:38 [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -A <author-conv-file> option Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-13  1:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-13  2:14   ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-13  4:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-13  8:45       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-01-13  3:19   ` Alexander Litvinov

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