From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Good Emacs Package to Work with CVS? Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:35:22 -0700 Message-ID: <20150901023026.25019.089E763A@ahiker.mooo.com> References: Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441074952 2726 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 02:35:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 02:35:52 +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 04:35:52 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 1ZWbQM-0007L3-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:35:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbQM-0002Er-H3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbQ4-0002Ed-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:35:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbQ3-00012i-2K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from disorder-1-pt.tunnel.tserv3.fmt2.ipv6.he.net ([2001:470:1f04:51a::2]:45916 helo=acedia.primate.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbQ2-00011g-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from acedia.primate.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Debian-4) with ESMTP id t812ZN6i007388 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:35:23 -0700 Original-Received: (from itz@localhost) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t812ZMin007383 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:35:22 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: acedia.primate.net: itz set sender to itz@buug.org using -f Original-Received: from itz by ahiker.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWbPu-0006X1-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:35:22 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:470:1f04:51a::2 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:106949 Archived-At: 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.