From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:44:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130102222849.GA21105@thyrsus.com> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Martin Langhoff : >> 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. m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff