From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:15:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922131526.GB6320@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160922072628.rs47hfiowtobw46s@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> Back when this guide was written, cvsimport was the only
> game in town. These days it is probably not the best option.
It is absolutely not. As I have tried to point out here before, it
is *severely* broken in its processing of branchy CVS repositories.
Nobody wanted to hear that, but it's still true. Recommending it
is irresponsible.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-22 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-22 7:23 [PATCH 0/3] update git cvs import documentation Jeff King
2016-09-22 7:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs Jeff King
2016-09-22 7:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage Jeff King
2016-09-22 7:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats Jeff King
2016-09-22 13:15 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2016-09-23 3:56 ` Jeff King
2016-09-28 0:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2016-09-28 6:41 ` Jeff King
2016-09-28 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
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