[PATCH] Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.
- From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
- Date
- Dec 28, 2012, 16:20 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20121228162025.8565E4413A@snark.thyrsus.com>
The parsecvs code has been neglected for a long time, and the only public version does not even build correctly. I have been handed control of the project and intend to fix this, but until I do it cannot be recommended.
Also, the project URL given for Subversion needed to be updated to follow their site move. --- Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 98d9881..9d5353e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -213,11 +213,9 @@ Problems related to tags: * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported. If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you -want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be -more stable in practice: +want to imort, consider using cvs2git: -* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org` -* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs` +* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/` GIT ---
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