From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E1C207EC for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750727AbcI1Gly (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:41:54 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:49274 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750719AbcI1Glx (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:41:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 13224 invoked by uid 109); 28 Sep 2016 06:41:51 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:41:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 22773 invoked by uid 111); 28 Sep 2016 06:42:07 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:42:07 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:41:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:41:50 -0400 From: Jeff King To: "Eric S. Raymond" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats Message-ID: <20160928064149.m3j5z5tr4zopet5h@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20160922072350.ivjrfuedodd2rezn@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20160922072628.rs47hfiowtobw46s@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20160922131526.GB6320@thyrsus.com> <20160923035601.f5czdieouzvm3ptz@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20160928001108.GA9120@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160928001108.GA9120@thyrsus.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Jeff King : > > I am not qualified to write on the current state of > > the art in CVS importing. > > I *am* qualified; cvs-fast-export has had a lot of work put into it by > myself and others over the last five years. I, for one, would be fine if you wanted to send a patch updating Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt to describe cvs-fast-export rather than cvsimport. I think it would probably even be fine if it mostly just pointed to an existing guide and said "use this". -Peff