Re: Proposal of reposurgeon applied to cvs2git

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>:
> I'm certain HBB would have no problems running the "construct_cvs2git_repo"
> script, so I would propose that HBB and I take a look at that cvs2git result
> over the course of a day (I'm already pretty confident) and declare "It's a
> go", then Eric apply reposurgeon, restoring the items I removed from
> ./reconvert that are of significance, then post the BETA release to
> sourceforge.  If everyone's then happy with the beta version, we'd be done.

Sorry, not interested in going through yet another round of
complications - unless you think you have fixes or at least good bug
characterizations for cvs-fast-export or reposurgeon.  Those I'd take.

For me, messing with cvs2git has negative value.  I can't use it in my
standard conversion workflow, it makes the refinement cycles too slow.

At some point, somebody in your crew is going to have to decide you'll
stop screwing with the conversion and cut over to using it.  You've
long since overshot the amount of effort Ethan and I think is
appropriate.

Remember,

   wget http://www.catb.org/~esr/gnuplot-conversion.tar.gz

The last change I made was to clean up and parametrize the repository-nuker
script.  After three weeks of this I think it's time for me to bow out and
pay attention to projects  I've been neglecting. You guys gave a deadline
to meet and a policy decision to make. 
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