From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:08:03 GMT
Subject: Re: cvsimport still not working with cvsnt
Message-ID: <7vipwbbrcc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyfxgdz2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It is probably unlikely to see a SP in the pathname, but I do not think it
> is reasonable to introduce a regression to forbid '=' in the pathname to
> the repository, which we have been supporting since August 2009, when we
> know the patch as-is will regress the use case, and especially when we
> already know a way to code not to regress is not too complex.

Even though I don't deeply care about what CVSNT does, but I am somewhat
curious why this "change SP to =" was done when CVSNT writes out its
$HOME/.cvs/cvspass file.

Does anybody know why?  Only to make things incompatible, perhaps? ;-)

  http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-April/025095.html

seems to indicate that somebody next door had a similar experience on
exactly the same issue.