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Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2013, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20131218202009.GA4935@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To
<20131218195450.GK3163@serenity.lan>
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>:
> Which I think sums up the position nicely; if you're doing a one-shot
> import then the standalone tools are going to be a better choice, but if
> you're trying to use Git for your work on top of CVS the only choice is
> cvsps with git-cvsimport.

Which will trash your history - the bugs in that are worse than the bugs in 3.0, which are bad enough that I *terminated* it.

Lovely....
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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  39. incremental fast-import and marks (Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps)Jonathan Nieder, Dec 18, 2013
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