From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:16:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: rewrite to use cvsps 3.x to fix major bugs
Message-ID: <20130112181633.GB4624@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20130112161105.GB3270@thyrsus.com>

Hi Eric,

Eric S. Raymond wrote:

>             But in practice the git crew was going to lose that
> capability anyway simply because the new wrapper will support three
> engines rather than just one.  It's not practical for the git tests to
> handle that many variant external dependencies.

See the git-blame/git-annotate tests for an example of how the
testsuite handles "variations on a theme".

It works fine.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan