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Re: git copies of cvs modules available



On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:40:54PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> 
> > Similarly, if the
> > cvs-to-git import scripts weren't stupid about file revisions and RCS
> > keywords...
> >
> This is because all tools live on top of cvs(1) output, rather than
> directly parsing the ,v files.

It can't be.  If they are getting the version strings wrong in the
keywords, they have to be operating on the ,v files, because any time
you tell CVS to extract, it updates the keywords!

The only place the keywords have the N-1 value is *in the ,v file*.

Thor


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