Re: Collecting cvsps patches

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Jun 16, 2006, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20060616213442.GO7766@nowhere.earth>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606130841200.5498@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:47:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > 
> > I have setup a Q&D page at
> > http://ydirson.free.fr/en/software/scm/cvsps.html to link to.
> > 
> > I'll expand it later with more information.
> 
> Will you be able to set up gitweb on that site, perhaps?

No, CGI's on this hosting platform are restricted to ISP-provided ones.

Do you think it would be adequate to have this repo hosted on kernel.org ?

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> Also, I guess that patch I posted in the "cvsps wierdness" thread (yeah, 
> yeah, bad spelling, but it wasn't me who started the thread) should 
> probably be added, since it fixed at least one test-case.
> 
> Although it should probably get more testing with a bigger and more 
> real-life repository..

Added, in the to-check branch.  At least the idea is sound.

Anyway, there are quite a number of hairy repos out there, which appear to cause problem to cvsps. I'll see if I can identify more problems precisely - I have already collected a handful of them to http://bugs.debian.org/cvsps.

Best regards,

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