Re: Fwd: git-cvsimport documentation improvement

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: May 9, 2021, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQxZJzgNLAbRGK_GyiudcmK_njKW=zafSKkoi6O0iYMog@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqczu0ti6s.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 4:39 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
> > The git-cvsimport docs say:
> >
> > WARNING: git cvsimport uses cvsps version 2, which is considered
> > deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you
> > are performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
> > cvs2git or cvs-fast-export.
> >
> > However, I can find no trace of cvsps version 3. The latest seems to
> > be 2.2, which is marked as a pre-release, and cvsps 2.1 seems to be
> > the most commonly packaged version.
>
> The text comes from this commit early in 2013.  Perhaps there was
> cvsps 3 back then?

There's a cvsps 3.13, but it's deprecated and was EOL'd at the end of 2013. http://www.catb.org/~esr/cvsps/