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Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2013, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID
<20130102153933.GA30813@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To
<20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com>
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
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>> Speaking with my Debian packager hat on: the updated cvsps is not
>> available in Debian.  "git cvsimport" is, and it has users that report
>> bugs from time to time.  With this change, I would either have to take
>> on responsibility for maintenance of the cvsps package (not going to
>> happen) or drop "git cvsimport".  That's a serious regression.
>
> How does going from "it silently damages imports" to "it fails with
> an error message" constitute a regression?

The former is already loudly advertised in the package description and manpage, at least lets you get work done, and works fine for simple repositories with linear history.

Taking away a command that people have been using in everyday work is pretty much a textbook example of a regression, no?

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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