From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:23:48 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs2git and file permissions
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506181421070.2268@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050618205208.GA4917@billie.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>



On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> 
> Let cvs checkout in a temporary directory rather than
> using the pipe option to avoid loss of mode information.

Hmm.. Why do you use the "-N" flag?

Wouldn't it be much cleaner to _not_ create all those sub-directories 
under ".git-tmp", and instead do something like

	"cvs -q -d %s checkout -d .git-tmp -r%s '%s/%s'" ...
	"mv -f .git-tmp/%s %s\n", dir ? dir+1 : name, name

With that changed (and tested ;), I'll happily take it.

		Linus