I checked and the patches provided for these projects just apply fine!
Thx Paul, this saves quite some pain :)

On 2011-07-07, at 12:41 PM, Pascal Rapicault wrote:

> Ok great. I'll try with the test repo that Kim had created and will report.
> On 2011-07-07, at 12:23 PM, Paul Webster wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Pascal Rapicault <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In preparation for the move of p2 to a git repo (see Tom's mail from 
>> yesterday), I have been thinking about releasing large pending patches into 
>> separate branches in CVS so that they are automatically carried over into 
>> the new git repo, and thus saves the author some nightmare related to 
>> dealing with reapplying the patch. What do you think about this?
>> 
>> Once your git repo is online and the projects imported into your workspace, 
>> the patches *should* apply from within eclipse just as before.
>> 
>> If you commit them to CVS in a branch for the effected projects,  the tool 
>> we use to convert cvs2git creates a "delete commit" at the base of the 
>> branch to get rid of anything not tagged and branched from CVS.  This could 
>> make a merge on the git side painful, and might force you to cherrypick your 
>> commit across (just an inconvenience, I know).
>> 
>> Later,
>> PW
>> 
>> -- 
>> Paul Webster
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