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Re: Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import

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SVSven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date
Aug 15, 2005, 08:22 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:49:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > Except for the keyword expansion. surely there's a way to tell cvsps
> > to not do it. Why would we ever want it?
> 
> Ahh. I don't think we should blame cvsps, I think cvsimport should use the 
> "-ko" flag to disable keyword expansion or whatever the magic flag is.
> 
> Sven, Matthias, opinions? I've never used CVS keyword expansion, and 
> always felt it was pointless, but hey..
>

I don't have any strong opinion on that, but I do think that by default a cvsimport should give you the same file contents that a "cvs import" would. Martin's patch seems to be going in the right direction.

skimo
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Message 6 of 16 in “Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import”
  1. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  4. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  6. Sven VerdoolaegeAug 15, 2005
  7. Matthias UrlichsAug 15, 2005
  8. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  9. Wolfgang DenkAug 15, 2005
  10. Matthias UrlichsAug 15, 2005
  11. Sven VerdoolaegeAug 15, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  13. Martin LanghoffAug 15, 2005
  14. Wolfgang DenkAug 15, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  16. Johannes SchindelinAug 15, 2005

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