Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>: >> Speaking with my Debian packager hat on: the updated cvsps is not >> available in Debian. "git cvsimport" is, and it has users that report >> bugs from time to time. With this change, I would either have to take >> on responsibility for maintenance of the cvsps package (not going to >> happen) or drop "git cvsimport". That's a serious regression. > > How does going from "it silently damages imports" to "it fails with > an error message" constitute a regression?
The former is already loudly advertised in the package description and manpage, at least lets you get work done, and works fine for simple repositories with linear history. Taking away a command that people have been using in everyday work is pretty much a textbook example of a regression, no? Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
