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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, 23:44 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
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> Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>:
>> I dealt with enough CVS repos to see that the branch point could be
>> ambiguous, and that some cases were incurably ugly and ambiguous.
>
> You are quite right, but you have misintepreted the subject of my
> confidence.  I am under no illusion that the new cvsimport/cvsps
> pair is a perfect solution to the CVS-lifting problem, nor even that
> such a solution is possible.
Thanks. That is a much more reassuring stance.
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  1. Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.Eric S. Raymond, Jan 1, 2013
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  3. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013
  5. Jonathan NiederJan 2, 2013
  6. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
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  9. Martin LanghoffJan 2, 2013
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  15. Jonathan NiederJan 2, 2013
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