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

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2013, 18:37 UTC
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<20130102183710.GB19006@thyrsus.com>
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> As your version already knows how to detect the case where cvsps is
> too old to operate with it, I imagine it to be straight-forward to
> ship the old cvsimport under obscure name, "git cvsimport--old" or
> something, and spawn it from your version when necessary, perhaps
> after issuing a warning "cvsps 3.0 not found; switching to an old
> and unmaintained version of cvsimport..."

This can be done. As this may not be the last case in which it comes up, perhaps we should have an 'obsolete' directory distinct from 'contrib'.

I'll ship another patch.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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  1. Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.Eric S. Raymond, Jan 1, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 1, 2013
  3. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013
  5. Jonathan NiederJan 2, 2013
  6. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
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  9. Martin LanghoffJan 2, 2013
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  20. Chris RorvickJan 3, 2013
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