git-cvsimport with cvsps output in commit msg breaks imports
From: Thomas Adam <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:13
Hi all, [ I've Cced both the cvsps maintainer and the author listed for git-cvsimport in case it's more relevant to either tool. ] I am wondering if anyone here is able to shed some light on a problem I've encountered with git-cvsimport. For ages now, I've had an automatic conversion of a CVS repository to a Git one, using git-cvsimport to update a repository as commits happen in CVS. The repository in question is here: https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux Everything is on the Master branch. More specifically, the commit which I think introduced the problem, and all subsequent commits thereafter is here: https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux/commit/f0220a10b01a764e0dc52ea1b2407f58600a30eb Note that from this commit onwards, the commit *message* has a bunch of cvsps output in it. I can only surmise that this somehow causes problems for cvsimport. But I can't say for sure. But if you look at the commit after f0220a10b0: https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux/commit/a7e5b474af93e36e314170e2db18e544e34cf7b3 The file cvsimport has imported has actually *reverted* the file in question. Confer: -/* $Id: tmux.h,v 1.582 2010/12/06 21:48:56 nicm Exp $ */ +/* $Id: tmux.h,v 1.246 2009/01/21 19:38:51 nicm Exp $ */ Is anyone able to shed some light on this? Needless to say I am a little perplexed that content in the commit message (if that's what it is) would cause a cvsimport to fail. The net result of this is I can no longer compile the master branch at all because of this. Oh, and should anyone be thinking it, compiling the CVS repository which the git-cvsimport command is referencing, compiles fine. So it's definitely a problem with the import. Any questions or further bits of information I can provide, do shout. TIA. -- Thomas Adam -- "Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)