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Re: [PATCH] Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.

From
Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date
Dec 28, 2012, 23:01 UTC
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<20121228230149.GA3575@book-mint>
In-Reply-To
<20121228162025.8565E4413A@snark.thyrsus.com>
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:20:25AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 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.

You mean: It does not build correctly with a current version of git? Since it links with the git source code it probably needs a version of gits source code around the time of the last commits.

Maybe you could add that information to the parsecvs compile instructions? I think just because it takes some effort to compile does not justify to remove this useful pointer here. When I was converting a legacy cvs repository this pointer would have helped me a lot.

It is the tool we were/are actively using to convert old repositories at $dayjob.

Cheers Heiko
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  1. Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.Eric S. Raymond, Dec 28, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 28, 2012
  3. Heiko VoigtDec 28, 2012
  4. Eric S. RaymondDec 29, 2012
  5. Heiko VoigtJan 6, 2013
  6. Eric S. RaymondJan 6, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2013
  8. Eric S. RaymondJan 7, 2013
  9. Chris PackhamJan 1, 2013

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