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Re: [PATCH] Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.

From
Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 1, 2013, 10:05 UTC
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<50E2B4CC.7050503@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20121228162025.8565E4413A@snark.thyrsus.com>
Minor typo
On 12/29/2012 05:20 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
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> The parsecvs code has been neglected for a long time, and the only
> public version does not even build correctly.  I have been handed
> control of the project and intend to fix this, but until I do it
> cannot be recommended.
> 
> Also, the project URL given for Subversion needed to be updated
> to follow their site move.
> ---
>  Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
> index 98d9881..9d5353e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
> @@ -213,11 +213,9 @@ Problems related to tags:
>  * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
>  
>  If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
> -want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be
> -more stable in practice:
> +want to imort, consider using cvs2git:
s/imort/import/
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>  
> -* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
> -* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`
> +* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/`
>  
>  GIT
>  ---
> 
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  1. Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.Eric S. Raymond, Dec 28, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 28, 2012
  3. Heiko VoigtDec 28, 2012
  4. Eric S. RaymondDec 29, 2012
  5. Heiko VoigtJan 6, 2013
  6. Eric S. RaymondJan 6, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2013
  8. Eric S. RaymondJan 7, 2013
  9. Chris PackhamJan 1, 2013

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