John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Ah. OK, that is yet another bug inherited from 2.x - the code doesn't > > match the documented (and correct) behavior. Please send me a patch > > against the cvsps repo, I'll merge it. > > Should now be in your inbox. Received, merged, tested, and cvsps-3.10 has shipped. > I think the only way to do it without needing to save local state in the > Git repository would be to teach cvsps to read a table of refs and times > from its stdin so that we could do something like: > > git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)%09%(*authordate:raw)' refs/heads/ | > cvsps -i --branch-times-from-stdin | > git fast-import > > Then cvsps could create a hash table from this and use that to decide > whether a patch set is interesting or not. Agreed. I considered implementing something quite this before thinking of the ^0 hack. But an out-of-band timestamp file is much simpler. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> -- 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