Re: [ITA] Git et al

[David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>]

On 7/19/2014 12:29 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:20:41PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2014-06-10 17:36, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
>>> The only outstanding issue with my build is that git-cvs wasn't working.
>>> That seemed to be down to my build environment, as my attempts to build
>>> the source code available via the Cygwin mirrors showed the same
>>> behaviour, but those binaries work as expected.
>>
>> Are you only testing this with the Cygwin CVS repo?  Have you tried
>> this with any other repos?  For example:
>>
>> :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps setup (Cygwin setup)
>> :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin htdocs (Cygwin website)
> 
> I've just dusted off this job, and although I was still unable to get
> Git v1.8.5.2 working, bumping up to the latest v2.0.2 has had
> considerably more success.
> 
> There are a few things to iron out yet: I've only checked the 32-bit
> build so far, and I'm using a borrowed computer at the moment so I need
> to make sure I can recreate the results on my machine.  I've also only
> done very mainline testing thus far on this build, although the test
> suite is running as I write this email.
> 
> I've still not been able to clone the Cygwin source code from CVS --
> I've been testing by cloning the cygwin-apps repo Yaakov referenced
> above -- but the errors look like a version incompatibility, and I don't
> think there's much I can do about that.  If someone who knows more about
> CVS and Git could take a look at the output and confirm that hypothesis,
> I'd be grateful:
> 
>     $ git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/src src
>     Initialized empty Git repository in /home/add/test/.git/
>     Running cvsps...
>     WARNING: malformed CVS version str: Server:
>     WARNING: Your CVS client version:
>     [Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13 (client/server)]
>     and/or server version:
>     [Server: ]
>     are too old to properly support the rlog command.
>     This command was introduced in 1.11.1.  Cvsps
>     will use log instead, but PatchSet numbering
>     may become unstable due to pruned empty
>     directories.

I have been using git 2.0.2 that I built myself for a while now, so I
tried this command using my copy. FWIW, the import works just fine with
my x86_64 build, but fails with the same messages you get with the i686
build.

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David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org