From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert 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 10:37:57 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <52D82705.6040507@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20140116150024.GA16878@thyrsus.com> <87ha940x1y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140116162353.GA17303@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389897508 26918 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 18:38:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com, David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 19:38:34 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 1W3rpp-00062e-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:38:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3rpo-0003F2-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:38:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3rpe-0003En-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3rpW-0002wK-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:33032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3rpN-0002qi-FX; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6CB39E8015; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:57 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id T6JZ79BRyIz2; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8BDF739E8011; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:57 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20140116162353.GA17303@thyrsus.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:168560 Archived-At: On 01/16/2014 08:23 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > there just aren't that many projects old enough to predate CVS. Hah! The last public software project I converted was from SCCS to Git. And this was genuine circa-1980 Programmer's Workbench SCCS, not some pale imitation. None of the repository converters I found on the web worked, so I had to write my own. I wish I'd known about your repository toolset -- maybe some of its Swiss Army knife blades would have saved me some work.