On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >Jesse Keating wrote: >> I'm currently playing with a utility called parsecvs to convert our cvs >> stuff into git. This utility can also translate the raw usernames that >> CVS has into more useful names+email addresses that you'd typically get >> out of git. But to make this conversion it needs a translation file. > >I've used parsecvs a lot. >Over the course of converting the likes of coreutils, glibc, emacs, >diffutils, gzip, grep, etc. I've made a number of changes to fix >NULL-dereferences, adapt to evolving GIT APIs and to remove at least >one performance bottleneck that dramatically sped up the conversion >of glibc. I've even added a testing framework and a test case (the >first!) and pushed another that was contributed privately. All local, >but I'd rather share. > >Does anyone know of a public and *maintained* repository for parsecvs? >I've looked numerous times (as recently as a few weeks ago), and tried >to contact Keith Packard, hoping he would still be maintaining it, >but have had no luck. I'd suggest creating a fedorahosted project for it, or something similar. I think there are many random versions of it out there and starting a project to try and consolidate would be great. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
