From: Sven Verdoolaege Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:22:41 GMT Subject: Re: Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import Message-ID: <20050815082241.GF11882MdfPADPa@garage.linux.student.kuleuven.ac.be> In-Reply-To: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:49:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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