From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs. Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:43:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20130101172645.GA5506@thyrsus.com> <7vfw2k8t7k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130102003344.GA9651@thyrsus.com> <20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin> <20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com> <20130102153933.GA30813@elie.Belkin> <20130102161848.GA18447@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: esr@thyrsus.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 02 17:44:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqRQU-0007z7-0A for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:44:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752981Ab3ABQoC (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:44:02 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:41088 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752856Ab3ABQoB (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:44:01 -0500 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Ybykz67MWz4KK3J; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:43:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Ybykz5y0tzbbjK; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:43:55 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cTiIQK9PKNdV; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:43:39 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: ilzrep9RzhZ3WDf6MP8uMjudRmBBEgs32EJ1vLsPqV0= Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-103-193.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.103.193]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:43:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id E95ECCA2A2; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:43:51 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I'm RELIGIOUS!! I love a man with a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!! In-Reply-To: <20130102161848.GA18447@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:18:48 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.91 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > Two of the three claims in this paragraph are false. The manual page > does not tell you what is true, which is that old cvsps will fuck up > every branch by putting the root point at the wrong place. That doesn't look like being a widespread problem, or more people would have complained. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."