Re: parsecvs has been salvaged

> Since Heiko Voigt and others were concerned about this, I report that
> I have successfully salvaged the parsecvs code. I now have it emitting
> a correct-looking fast-import stream for my main test repository.
>
> I'm not ready to ship it yet because there are several features I
> think it ought to have before I do.  An -R option like cvsps's;
> correct interpretation of a third timezone field as in cvsps; and,
> most significantly, I want to make sure it emits warnings for important
> error and problem conditions like unresolvable tags and absence of
> commitids.
>
> But these are all relatively minor issues. It is likely I will be able
> to ship early next week, at which point I will add support for
> parsecvs as a third engine in new cvsimport.
>
> This next step in the larger program will be factoring out the cvsps
> test suite and applying it to all three of cvsps, cvs2git, and
> parsecvs so I can compare results.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
> Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens
> of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
>         -- James Madison, The Federalist Papers