From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116038: On VCS-independent ways of identifying commits, and why they are desirable. Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:38:06 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140116193806.GH17770@thyrsus.com> References: <877g9z6g3j.fsf@igel.home> <20140116173259.GA17770@thyrsus.com> <8738kn6bb7.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389901098 6598 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 19:38:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:38:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 20:38:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3slf-0000Ja-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:38:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3sle-0002Me-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:38:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3slX-0002MN-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:38:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3slT-00055i-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:33169 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3slS-00055e-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:38:06 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B7B8380835; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:38:06 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8738kn6bb7.fsf@igel.home> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168570 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab : > > Interesting. What CVS lifter did you use? > > I think I started with parsecvs, but I cannot remember the exact > details. Good. That is one of only two I know of that don't suck. If you had given me almost any other answer I would have begun to fear that I would have to re-lift the CVS myself. In fact, I now maintain what used to be parsecvs. It's called cvs-fast-export now and has several improvements, including being able to emit a fast-import stream directly. -- Eric S. Raymond