From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:24:33 GMT
Subject: Re: parsecvs tool now creates git repositories
Message-ID: <1144117473.2303.132.camel@neko.keithp.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90604031916r4651b572lb9bae4c5a3d47bc9@mail.gmail.com>

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