From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:18:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -k kill keyword expansion option to git-cvsimport
Message-ID: <7vacjj3968.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90508150037f128d6@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

>> ..., in which case instead of a -k option that does not allow
>> anything but -ko, making it take an optional single letter
>> o/k/b/v might might more sense.  A single -k defaulting to -ko
>> is fine by me if you did so, because I think that is the most
>> useful and usual mode of operation while converting to GIT
>> repository.

> Anyway, this script has so far followed cvs's own default... which is
> -kv, and I am generally unwilling to break backwards compatibility.

I realize what I wrote was prone to be misunderstood.  What I
meant about "single -k defaulting to -ko" was this:

    cvsimport without -k<any> => cvs default
    cvsimport -k == cvsimport -ko => use cvs -ko
    cvsimoprt -kv => use cvs -kv