Re: binary safe?

From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Nov 4, 2005, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20051104212701.GA4310@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90511041322x1d9f7a50ndafe724c2e8d368b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> (That being said, if you have a case where git-cvsimport is doing the
> wrong thing, let me know!)
> 
> > However, since CVS (RCS really) can remember the state of this flag, it
> > does work to  'cvs admin -ko filename' beforehand, and then do the
> > cvsimport without the '-k' option.
> 
> Yes, but a repo you don't control, where people are using keywords,
> means thatyou need to do -kk to kill the keywords or your imported
> files are going to have a horrid amount of noise in them.

Yes, the unpleasantness of CVS.

However, I was unable to do a proper git-cvsimport of the SourceForge 'vim' archive, with '-k'. By not giving it '-k' and using cvs admin '-ko' on the appropriate files, I was able to get the correct results.

May be the interpretation of the option depends on the particular server being used?

I can investigate later which particular file is causing the problem.

Dave