From: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:54:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+39Oz4f_Wn1cVzqNWO76HZWa4AswSBpbriaRc0OznapVLJfGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24nqoohss.fsf@gmail.com>
On 6 June 2012 11:28, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've spoken to the author of this commit, Matthias Urlichs. Here is an
> excerpt of our conversation:
>
>> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 00:08 -0500, John Wiegley wrote:
>> > Just wanted to let you know that this bit me. I have a client whose CVS
>> > repository I'm converting to Git, and they have _many_ log messages that
>> > are larger than 32k in size.
>>
>> Feel free to submit a patch that reverts this. These days, there's probably
>> no user of cvs2git left, but at that time it was important to get the same
This assertion is not only wrong, it's just ludicrous. The intended
functionality has a statement of intent with regards to its
functionality -- and as a user of cvs2git, I'd not want to lose *any*
of that functionality.
Don't be stupid with this. Please.
-- Thomas Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-06 10:28 Please revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1 John Wiegley
2012-06-06 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-06 17:54 ` Thomas Adam [this message]
2012-06-06 18:26 ` John Wiegley
2012-06-07 7:41 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-06-07 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-07 17:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-07 17:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-07 18:47 ` Andreas Schwab
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