Re: git-cvsimport-3 and incremental imports

From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2013, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20130120232008.GA25001@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130120200922.GC7498@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>:

> I don't think there is any way to solve this without giving cvsps more
> information, probably the last commit time for all git branches, but
> perhaps I'm missing a fast-import feature that can help solve this
> problem.

Yes, you are.  The magic incantation is

    from refs/heads/<branch>^0

I've just pushed a cvsps-3.9 with an -i option that generates these at each branch root. Combine it with -d and you get incremental fast-export.

You get to integrate this. I think the transition strategy Junio has chosen is seriously mistaken, leading to unnecessary grief for users who will be fooled into thinking it's OK to still use cvsps-2.x. Because I do not wish to encourage or endorse this mistake and am tired of arguing against stubborn determination to do the wrong thing, I am not going to sink more effort into the git project's end of the CVS-lifting problem. There are too many better uses for my time.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>