Re: [PATCH] Ignore commits for which cvsps can't identify a branch

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> 
> I have to admit that I can't actually tell you for sure, since I still get a
> failure later (I think it's because cvsps orders changesets wrongly).

Do you have a recent version of "cvsps"? The wrong ordering happened quite 
often with old cvsps versions. So make sure you absolutely have 2.1.

Also, David Mansfield may not be maintaining it horribly actively, but 
that's probably because it's purely a "minimal maintenance" project for 
him by now. He reacted in a very timely manner when we pointed out 
specific bugs, so if you can pinpoint the exact thing cvsps does wrong, I 
bet David will be more than happy to apply patches or perhaps even fix it 
himself and make a new version.

So while it's fine to work around cvsps problems inside "git cvsimport", 
it's even better if you could try to see if you can figure out why they 
happen in the first place. The source code wasn't all that unreadable from 
what I can remember.

		Linus