From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:35:33 GMT
Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps
Message-ID: <20131212183533.GC16960@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACPiFC+CAhh1S6Wt0bO2pDrXWgBW7AEFahGJjq0W7rG9LfTb8A@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>:
> In my prior work, the "better" CVS importers would not have stable
> output, so were not appropriate for incremental imports.

That is disturbing.  I would consider lack of stability a severe and
unacceptable failure mode in such a tool, if only because of the
difficulties it creates for proper regression testing.

If cvs-fast-export does not already have this property I will fix it 
so it does.  And document that fact.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>