Re: gitweb wishlist
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- May 24, 2005, 03:52 UTC
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On Mon, 23 May 2005, David Mansfield wrote:
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> > > > Bah. What crud. > > > > Hey, a polished turd is only so shiny... cvsps is a 99% solution [to > the problem of extracting metatdata from cvs] only and cvs makes the > other 1% impossible.
The "what crud" refers to cvs. cvsps seems to be a great way to make a tool to migrate away from CVS (or if forced to use CVS, at least show it in a sane manner). So don't take it the wrong way.
I've gotten side-tracked with purely git issues, and since I don't actually have any CVS archives, the cvs->git translation will be on the back-burner for a while, but your "Ancestor branch" patch seems to at least solve the problem that cvsps didn't show all the information that was there. So now I know how to do branches, even if I don't think I'd ever _really_ merge them back (which is as much info as CVS contains).
They'd just be dangling references, ie you could get to them if you wanted to, for historical reasons, and they could be merged merged by hand, of course. Some day..
Linus