On 01/05/2013 04:11 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Perhaps I was unclear. I consider the interface design error to
> be not in the fact that all the blobs are written first or detached,
> but rather that the implementation detail of the two separate journal
> files is ever exposed.
>
> I understand
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Michael Haggerty wants me to trust that cvs2git's analysis stage has
> been fixed, but I must say that is a more difficult leap of faith when
> two of the most visible things about it are still (a) a conspicuous
> instance of interface misdesign, and (b) documentation that
Bart Massey :
> I don't know what Eric Raymond "officially end-of-life"-ing parsecvs means?
You and Keith handed me the maintainer's baton. If I were to EOL it,
that would be the successor you two designated judging in public that
the code is unsalvageable or has become pointless. If you wanted
Max Horn :
> Hm, you snipped this part of Michael's mail:
>
> >> However, if that is a
> >> problem, it is possible to configure cvs2git to write the blobs inline
> >> with the rest of the dumpfile (this mode is supported because "hg
> >> fast-import" doesn't support detached blobs).
>
> I would
On 03.01.2013, at 21:53, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Michael Haggerty :
>> There are two good reasons that the output is written to two separate files:
>
> Those are good reasons to write to a pair of tempfiles, and I was able
> to deduce in advance most of what your explanation would be from the
>
Michael Haggerty :
> There are two good reasons that the output is written to two separate files:
Those are good reasons to write to a pair of tempfiles, and I was able
to deduce in advance most of what your explanation would be from the
bare fact that you did it that way.
They are *not* good rea
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> It is pure accident that I now maintain two of these.
Maintainership is always temporary.
> Having three different tools for this job seems to me duplicative and
> pointless; two of them should probably be let die an honorable death.
Pe
On 12/22/2012 06:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> * One is Michael Haggerty's cvs2git. I had bad experiences with the
> cvs2svn code it's derived from in the past, but Michael believes those
> problems have been fixed and I will accept that - at least until I can
> test for myself. Its documented
Heiko Voigt :
> Please share so we can have a look. BTW, where can I find your cvsps
> code?
https://gitorious.org/cvsps
Developments of the last 48 hours:
1. Andreas Schwab sent me a patch that uses commitids wherever the history
has them - this makes all the time-skew problems go away. I a
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:36:48PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> If we can agree on this, I'll start a public repo, and contribute my
> Python framework - it's more capable than any of the shell harnesses
> out there because it can easily drive interleaved operations on multiple
> checkout
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