Re: Re: Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 09:15:19AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > sr@snark:~/WWW/cvsps/fixrepos$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git > Cloning into 'cvsps-hv'... > fatal: http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git > repository? That link refers to the webpage of t

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Antoine Pelisse writes: > I guess 'w' means write No, 'w' mean gitweb. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

"Eric S. Raymond" writes: > esr@snark:~/WWW/cvsps/fixrepos$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git >From : URL git://repo.or.cz/cvsps-hv.git http://repo.or.cz/r/cvsps-hv.git Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58

Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Antoine Pelisse : > > esr@snark:~/WWW/cvsps/fixrepos$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git > > Cloning into 'cvsps-hv'... > > fatal: http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git > > repository? > > I guess 'w' means write, and you don't have write access. You should u

Re: Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Heiko Voigt : > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:21:18AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Heiko Voigt : > > > Back then when I was converting some repositories to git and I also > > > wrote a quick testsuite for cvsps in an attempt to fix the bugs but gave > > > up. That was the point when I wr

Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Heiko Voigt : > My commits can be found here: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsps-hv.git > > I just quickly checked and it seems that it does not run cleanly on a > modern Linux anymore. If it is of interest to you I can try to get it > running again. esr@snark:~/WWW/cvsps/fixrepos$ git clone ht

Re: Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Hi, On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:21:18AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Heiko Voigt : > > Back then when I was converting some repositories to git and I also > > wrote a quick testsuite for cvsps in an attempt to fix the bugs but gave > > up. That was the point when I wrote about cvsimports limitat

Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Heiko Voigt : > Back then when I was converting some repositories to git and I also > wrote a quick testsuite for cvsps in an attempt to fix the bugs but gave > up. That was the point when I wrote about cvsimports limitations in the > documentation. > > My commits can be found here: > > htt

Re: Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Hi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:44:37AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Michael Haggerty : > > In 2009 I added tests demonstrating some of the erroneous behavior of > > git-cvsimport. The failing tests in t9601-t9603 are concrete examples > > of the problems mentioned in the manpage. > > Thanks,

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

On 12/21/2012 10:43 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Michael Haggerty : >> Perhaps your experience is with an older version of cvs2svn? > > Well, it has been at least four years since I ran it on anything. > Maybe that counts as old. cvs2svn version 2.0 (Aug 2007) totally changed how cvs2svn deduce

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Michael Haggerty : > Perhaps your experience is with an older version of cvs2svn? Well, it has been at least four years since I ran it on anything. Maybe that counts as old. I'm willing to believe it's working better now, but I've had to deal with geological strata of nastiness older versions p

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

On 12/21/2012 11:44 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Michael Haggerty : >> If you haven't yet seen it, there is a writeup of the algorithm used by >> cvs2git to infer the history of a CVS repository [1]. If your goal is >> to make cvsps more robust, you might want to consider the ideas >> described th

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

Michael Haggerty : > In 2009 I added tests demonstrating some of the erroneous behavior of > git-cvsimport. The failing tests in t9601-t9603 are concrete examples > of the problems mentioned in the manpage. Thanks, that will be extremely useful. One of the things I'm putting effort into is buildi

Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

On 12/20/2012 10:56 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Earlier today David Mansfield handed off to me the cvsps project. This > is the code used as an engine for reading CVS repositories by > git-cvsimport. > [...] I have added a --fast-export option to > cvsps-3.0 that emits a git fast-import stream rep