I'm going to try sending this blind, as the mailing list has sent me the
promised authorization key after 24 hrs.
I'm brand new to git. We'll be moving over from CVS, so I imported a
small part of our CVS repository to start learning git. We use the
CVSNT server, and git-cvsimport was failing with "I HATE YOU". I
finally found the problems, both of which were reported in 2008 here:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/3/13/1157364
However, these changes do not appear in the version 1.7.2.2 that Gentoo
supplies. I checked the 1.7.3-rc2 source and the changes are not in
there either.
I do see one possible issue with the supplied modifications. At work,
we upgraded from CVS to CVSNT. So, my home directory has both .cvspass
(from the original CVS) and .cvs/cvspass (after the conversion to
CVSNT.) Sloppy housekeeping on my part, I admit, but probably not
uncommon. The supplied patch would pick up the original CVS file and
would fail. (BTW, this is true only of the git-cvsimport.perl script
itself; cvsps must shell out to the installed CVS client (in my case,
cvsnt), because when I invoked that manually, it worked.)
So, I would advise checking to see if both files exist, and if so exit
with an error. Unless cvsimport wants to get real fancy and shell out
to the installed cvs client to try to figure out what is installed,
there is no way to tell which cvspass file is actively being used. I
don't recommend trying to figure this out, as the user's intent is unclear.
--
Guy Rouillier
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