From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:01:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.
Message-ID: <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