On 05/06/2013 11:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > This would simplify the documentation, and obliterate the need to use > mark files at all: As explained in my other email, this documentation change does not remove all of the reasons that users might want to use mark files. I would still like to show users how they can load the files into Git as two separate steps. > diff -ur cvs2svn-2.4.0/www/cvs2git.html cvs2svn-2.4.0-mod/www/cvs2git.html > --- cvs2svn-2.4.0/www/cvs2git.html 2012-09-22 01:49:55.000000000 -0500 > +++ cvs2svn-2.4.0-mod/www/cvs2git.html 2013-05-06 16:33:12.070189985 -0500 > @@ -355,14 +355,13 @@ > fast-import</tt>:</p> > > <pre> > -git fast-import --export-marks=../cvs2svn-tmp/git-marks.dat < > ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat > -git fast-import --import-marks=../cvs2svn-tmp/git-marks.dat < > ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat > +cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import > </pre> > > - <p>On Linux/Unix this can be shortened to:</p> > + <p>On Windows you should use type instead:</p> > > <pre> > -cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import > +type ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import > </pre> > > </li> > Only in cvs2svn-2.4.0-mod/www: .cvs2git.html.swp > > Nevertheless, it *would* be nice to add the Windows equivalent of the "cat" pipeline. I knew about the "type" command but I was under the impression that it is intended for text files and can corrupt binary files. Are you sure that using "type" as you suggest is binary-clean? Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- 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