From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: cvsimport still not working with cvsnt Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:08:03 -0800 Message-ID: <7vipwbbrcc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4D0ED5EC.9020402@burntmail.com> <20101220213654.GA24628@burratino> <4D112586.2060904@Freescale.com> <4D119015.6020207@burntmail.com> <4D2AB63D.7040803@burntmail.com> <4D2FEF49.8070205@burntmail.com> <20110114074449.GA11175@burratino> <7v8vynnokt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4D450655.5090501@burntmail.com> <7vhbcb35xk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4D5E1116.7040501@burntmail.com> <7voc69p4xu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4D5F6E97.4000402@burntmail.com> <7vy65bkw72.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4D61EA4B.3020708@burntmail.com> <7vtyfxgdz2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Martin Langhoff , Jonathan Nieder , Emil Medve , git , Pascal Obry , Clemens Buchacher To: Guy Rouillier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 23 00:08:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps1LI-0008V3-Ny for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:08:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752207Ab1BVXIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:08:24 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:60307 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751375Ab1BVXIW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:08:22 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDDC4E15; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:09:34 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=GqDZsBlA7sugPjJL+aORuEZl3bU=; b=RWAIaq 7XRDkv5chRfMLEgLhx2Dorio5ki51nAN1DjpDcBZaLu2CqGMNGWnT0it0inheYZ/ /I8pcda6lERlE+n3dSHa8ddAsrQ8rzG41mJOx4qh6yLD5kGXDea0PjTB1LNqx0UF 2An0vegDKqJLACoW4J4m9bcKO1pjNxoAEVP2U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=DtW+moxGunoAukMGsk8JcdfIoF+lWjdj 1nL+Do4wEuhAEjd4B79/cMmvebmSFghUrKOgnbA7Dunsu0sN6CKygMVyT0hTd4tv TerFtxf3+B2VeTPAH0nU7YnyuOZAXMLSsFjEDwh7KiJlcyGLotARshHVjbzE9eCw nIagFgWFWgI= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DA64E10; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:09:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9A5CE4DFF; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:09:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7vtyfxgdz2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon\, 21 Feb 2011 15\:33\:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: CB49C45A-3ED8-11E0-A4A5-AF401E47CF6F-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > It is probably unlikely to see a SP in the pathname, but I do not think it > is reasonable to introduce a regression to forbid '=' in the pathname to > the repository, which we have been supporting since August 2009, when we > know the patch as-is will regress the use case, and especially when we > already know a way to code not to regress is not too complex. Even though I don't deeply care about what CVSNT does, but I am somewhat curious why this "change SP to =" was done when CVSNT writes out its $HOME/.cvs/cvspass file. Does anybody know why? Only to make things incompatible, perhaps? ;-) http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-April/025095.html seems to indicate that somebody next door had a similar experience on exactly the same issue.