From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: York Zhao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Good Emacs Package to Work with CVS? Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:55:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150901023026.25019.089E763A@ahiker.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441076166 18739 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 02:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 02:56:06 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 04:56:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZWbjw-0007dU-MQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbjs-00075b-BW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54733) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbjh-00075F-CK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbjg-0005J1-5s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:55:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::233]:33003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbjg-0005IV-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: by obcji4 with SMTP id ji4so13754278obc.0 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:55:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=a0Jm0Alnn/zSS2l2XfbIbnBaVb/oRjJhbY8+yqBKhQ8=; b=DSZ5D2PsQhPB88H7alX/QNXi4bLuBRbO6gxzOP+qrRQF/mzOuJICuXYWB+W+doXpAb X/IiDroJl1zrpdpTLs0W8KJ8LgiBB0pGT92m/hOx5xxMlgSl20mbXrkpGvatYXOEw8SJ 9lK3BisQmH85Qcv25RarpC54NVunAc1JMrqIl87dAdFYqF+LF/aBx7FFkbh1jK1aomCR xFib89Ne5+K801H3+wsOxHl7gZ9fPdgjBmSH5GVU7pD4aHrQ2/khbyMvkmgksM51sBwI zvDPxhmF9x13B9o2Qwxj0kqAusogWS6f/mkHbuIABAVDIPMsGmTvcy3Kjk5+Rufwz6kE eGiw== X-Received: by 10.60.175.41 with SMTP id bx9mr14991391oec.46.1441076147486; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.105.147 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:55:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150901023026.25019.089E763A@ahiker.mooo.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c01::233 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106951 Archived-At: Thank you very much for your input Ian! On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2015-08-31 22:06 -0400, York Zhao wrote: > > > recommend a Emacs package to work with CVS efficiently which is > > similar to magit? Is it feasible to still work on a local git repo and > > keep it in sync with the company's CVS repo? > > There's something called PCL-CVS, which is included with Emacs. I > use git.el not magit so I can't really say how similar it is. Probably > not much. > > As for shuttling between git and cvs, the Debian description for package > git-cvs says: > > The git cvsimport tool can incrementally import from a repository that > is being actively developed and only requires remote access over CVS > protocol. Unfortunately, in many situations the import leads to > incorrect results. For reliable, one-shot imports, cvs2git from the > cvs2svn package or parsecvs may be a better fit. > > In short: I would not risk it. > > -- > Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. > Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. > > >