From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:40:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: rewritten in Perl
Message-ID: <pan.2005.06.29.20.40.37.811830@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0506291048140.1667@localhost.localdomain>

Hi, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.5/

Oh well, I'll have a look. (I never bothered with bk2cvs; there's a
better tool which does bk2git directly.)

> New scripts/lxdialog/yesno.c: 0 bytes.

0-byte files are quite common in real-world repositories, so
throwing an error when I see one won't work.

> Can't exec "git-update-cache": Argument list too long at
> /home/nico/bin/git-cvsimport-script line 402, <CVS> line 8254.

That, at least, is easily fixable, I'll do a followup patch.

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