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Heads up, an emergency fix for git-cvsimport is coming shortly

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Dec 30, 2012, 19:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20121230192116.C2A2444143@snark.thyrsus.com>

Bad news: the combination of cvsps and the existing git-cvsimport script is seriously broken in both places. This morning I fixed a nasty bug in cvsps's branch detection and shipped 3.3. This is a different bug from the broken (and now removed) ancestry-branch tracking.

Good news: I have fixed all the urgent bugs (and now you know how I spent my holidays). Somewhat to my surprise, half the problems listed on the git-cvsimport manual page turned out to be problems in git-cvsimport itself, not more cvsps lossage. Those bugs are dead.

cvsps is now much better about warning when it cannot translate a tag or sees a dubious branch structure. I've also enhanced git-cvsimport to have an engine switch so it can optionally use cvs2git as its conversion engine. If and when I can get parsecvs back into working shape, I will add it to the set of supported engines.

I have a test suite that proves fixes for all the urgent problems, but that needs a bit more work before I'm willing to call it done.

In a few days I will ship a patch that replaces git-cvsimport with a working version and removes the t960[123] tests from the git tree. Those are not actually tests of git-cvsimport itself but of the underlying conversion engine, and now form about half of cvsps's own regression-test suite.

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Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had
strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in
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