Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk project)

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

I know you've been busy putting Savannah back together, for which
I'm definitely grateful!

This still doesn't work though...  If you get a chance to fix it in the
near future I'd appreciate it.

Thank you,

Arnold

> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:31:43 +0100
> From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk
>  project)
>
> Hi,
>
> git-cvsserver must have been confused at some point.  I reinitialized
> its database and apparently it now works properly.
>
> - Sylvain
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:21:48PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > Hi Sylvain.
> > 
> > > Look for 'cvs' at:
> > > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit
> > > and let us know if the doc works for you.
> > 
> > It doesn't.  When I do
> > 
> > $ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/gawk.git co -d gawk master
> > cvs checkout: Updating gawk
> > U gawk/ABOUT-NLS
> > U gawk/AUTHORS
> > U gawk/COPYING
> > .........
> > 
> > I get what is in the CVS repository, not what's in the Git repository:
> > 
> > $ head gawk/ChangeLog 
> > Mon Nov  8 22:29:35 2010  Arnold D. Robbins  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >     * bootstrap.sh: Remove touch of libsigsegv/* files, since
> >     gawk no longer includes libsigsegv.
> > 
> > Wed Nov  3 08:29:15 2010  Arnold D. Robbins  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >     * node.c (free_wstr): If argument is null string or null field,
> >     return. Thanks to Vojtech Vitek <address@hidden>
> > 
> > To compare:
> > 
> > $ mkdir g ; cd g
> > $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gawk.git
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/g/gawk/.git/
> > ........
> > 
> > $ head gawk/ChangeLog 
> > Thu Nov 25 08:32:31 2010  Arnold D. Robbins  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >     * eval.c (posix_compare): Do string comparison with strcoll() /
> >     wcscoll().
> >     (cmp_nodes): Call it if do_posix.  This may be a bad idea,
> >     but what the heck.  Standards compatibility uber alles!
> > 
> > Wed Nov 24 20:09:23 2010  Arnold D. Robbins  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >     * ext.c (do_ext): Require definition of `plugin_is_GPL_compatible'
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > This is what I was asking about.  Do I have to disable CVS for the
> > project?  I was hoping to leave the CVS archive around a bit longer.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Aharon