From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:58:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport with cvsps output in commit msg breaks imports
Message-ID: <m2ei9p8knw.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20101209220347.GA3180@shuttle.home>

Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> writes:

> More specifically, the commit which I think introduced the problem, and all
> subsequent commits thereafter is here:
>
> https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux/commit/f0220a10b01a764e0dc52ea1b2407f58600a30eb
>
> Note that from this commit onwards, the commit *message* has a bunch of
> cvsps output in it.  I can only surmise that this somehow causes problems
> for cvsimport.

The cvsps output is ambigous.  If the commit log includes text that
resembles the patchset format generated by cvsps then git-cvsimport can
easily get confused.

Andreas.

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