Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Matt McCutchen <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I had a git repository for development of rsync and wanted to start
importing the upstream CVS with git-cvsimport, but git-cvsimport saw
that the git repository existed and insisted on updating a previous
import. This patch adds an -N option to git-cvsimport to force a new
import and updates the documentation appropriately.
Sounds like a useful addition. Tests?
Good call! As I was dismayed to discover, the existing files in the
working tree confused the import,\
What's the confusion? I thought updating of the git repo from cvs
worked. Sigh.
-piet
so -N as I implemented it is useless.
I ended up doing the import a different way; I'll notify the list if I
get around to implementing -N properly.
Matt
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