Earlier today David Mansfield handed off to me the cvsps project. This
is the code used as an engine for reading CVS repositories by
git-cvsimport.
His reason (aside from general overwork and no longer having a strong
interest on the code) is that I have added a --fast-export option to
cvsps-3.0 that emits a git fast-import stream representing the CVS
history.
I did this so that reposurgeon could use cvsps as a front end. But I
expect it will be of some interest to whoever is maintaining
git-cvsimport. That code can now become much, *much* smaller and
simpler.
The new --fast-export mode solves at least one bug mentioned on the
git-cvsimport man page; multiple tags pointing at the same CVS changeset
will be passed through correctly.
Possibly it fixes some other problems described there as well.
I don't understand all the bug warnings on that page and would like to
discuss them with the author, whoever that is. Possibly cvsps can be
further enhanced to address these problems; I'm willing to work on that.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
To stay young requires the unceasing cultivation of the ability to
unlearn old falsehoods.
-- Lazarus Long
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