Re: cvsimport still not working with cvsnt

From: Guy Rouillier <guyr@burntmail.com>
Date: Feb 23, 2011, 00:08 UTC
Message-ID: <4D644FEE.5030004@burntmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinUtUNGO3NK=JPTqnwcTtPMYjmLw82wJZ5nC-32@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/22/2011 6:50 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  wrote:
>> Even though I don't deeply care about what CVSNT does...
> ..
>> Does anybody know why?  Only to make things incompatible, perhaps? ;-)
>
> A brief googling around shows that it also stores it in the Windows registry.
>
> Should we support that too...? ;-)

One thing at a time, Martin :). After I get this patch through, I want to start working on getting the rest of the Perl script to run under Windows. I was almost there; the biggest issue is that Perl implementations (ActiveState, Strawberry) for Windows don't support the list form of open. I converted most of them successfully, but got stuck on one so decided to submit this patch first. Thank goodness I did this separately :).

To answer Junio's question, I'm looking at the CVSNT code now (GlobalSettings.cpp, if anyone is interested.) The password is stored in a general fashion like any other user-specified value. So, the authors elected to use a properties file format of key=value. That is as valid a format as any other.

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Guy Rouillier