From: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:36:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -N option to force a new import
Message-ID: <1194320170.21645.72.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxzz51d7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> writes:
> 
> > I had a git repository for development of rsync and wanted to start
> > importing the upstream CVS with git-cvsimport, but git-cvsimport saw
> > that the git repository existed and insisted on updating a previous
> > import.  This patch adds an -N option to git-cvsimport to force a new
> > import and updates the documentation appropriately.
> 
> Sounds like a useful addition.  Tests?

Good call!  As I was dismayed to discover, the existing files in the
working tree confused the import, so -N as I implemented it is useless.
I ended up doing the import a different way; I'll notify the list if I
get around to implementing -N properly.

Matt