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Re: parsecvs tool now creates git repositories

From
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Apr 4, 2006, 02:24 UTC
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<1144117473.2303.132.camel@neko.keithp.com>
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On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:16 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Meh, had you done it in Perl, I'd be helping you with the Pg repo,
> attic files and ensuring that files created on a branch and then put
> into HEAD are handled gracefully. (But you'll get Linus' and Junio's
> attention. Smarty cookie.)

I think those parts are working correctly, I've had plenty of examples of that kind of adventure.

> Does it run incrementally? Can it discover non-binary files and pass -kk?

It doesn't run incrementally, and it unconditionally passes -kk. It's currently using rcs to check out versions of the files, so it should deal with binary content as well as rcs does. Is there something magic I need to do here? Like for DOS?

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keith.packard@intel.com
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  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 3, 2006
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