(+cc: Emil, some cvsimport people) Guy Rouillier wrote: > I'm going to try sending this blind, as the mailing list has sent me > the promised authorization key after 24 hrs. No problem. Actually a subscription is not required --- the convention on this list is to always reply-to-all. > I finally found the problems, both of which were reported in 2008 > here: > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/3/13/1157364 Seems to have received no replies[1]. > 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. Thanks, sounds sane to me. Care to write a patch? Regards, Jonathan [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77109 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html