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Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2013, 21:15 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
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> Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>:
>> Replacement with something more solid is welcome, but until you are
>> extremely confident of its handling of legacy setups... I would still
>> provide the old cvsimport, perhaps in contrib.
>
> I am extremely confident.  I built a test suite so I could be.
This is rather off-putting. Really.

I dealt with enough CVS repos to see that the branch point could be ambiguous, and that some cases were incurably ugly and ambiguous.

Off the top of my head I can recall
 - Files created on a branch appear on HEAD (if the cvs client was
well behaved, in HEAD's attic, if the cvs client was buggy... )
 - Files tagged with the branch at a much later time. Scenario is a
developer opening/tagging a new branch mindlessly on a partial
checkout; then trying to "fix" the problem later.

My best guess is that you haven't dealt with enough ugly CVS repos. I used to have the old original X.org repos, but no more. Surely Mozilla's fugly old CVS repos are up somewhere, and may be therapeutic.

cheers,
m
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