Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:11:19PM +0100, Peter Baumann wrote: > > And I think handling this behaviour as a config option is the right thing, > > because most of the time if someone imports a project into git he > > will import the whole history, especially if he is using one of the > > cvs/svn importers. A "halfway import" as seen in the kernel repo is a > > special case and it is unlikely seen again. > > Not all projects run on a public VCS. Hell, not all projects run on a > VCS at all. And in the CVS case, you don't always have enough access > to actually download the repository, which afaik is needed for > importing. There is a tool floating around the 'net that will download a CVS repository and recreate the ,v files locally for you. cvssuck appears to be its name: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cvssuck/ -- Shawn. - 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