From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67904 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: git/hg Gnus repository Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:10:08 +0100 Message-ID: <873agqqugv.fsf@randomsample.de> References: <87prjw70et.fsf@randomsample.de> <87hc56r93s.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229292683 21860 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2008 22:11:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:11:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16350@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Dec 14 23:12:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LBzCN-0003qm-KZ for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBzAK-0004tM-NR; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:10:20 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBzAJ-0004tA-JW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:10:19 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LBzAG-000540-ON for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:10:19 -0600 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LBzAT-0008Vl-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:10:29 +0100 Original-Received: from dslc-082-082-187-029.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.187.29] helo=void) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBzAG-000426-Qx for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:10:17 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87hc56r93s.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi> (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo's message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:53:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67904 Archived-At: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo writes: > David Engster writes: > >> Has anyone managed to convert Gnus CVS to hg or git? For me, the >> conversion fails due to to the already discussed corruption of the CVS: >> >> unexpected EOF reading RCS file >> /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-uu.el,v > > I have converted the pre-GPLv3 part of Gnus CVS to Git and marked > committer names and addresses, commit message charsets, and > merges. Not authors though, nor merges from Emacs. The > repository takes 21 MB and is not currently at a public server. > > To exclude the corrupted revisions from git-cvsimport, > apply the following patch to the output of cvsps. I didn't think of running cvsps manually; thanks for the patch, it seems to work (I canceled the operation after a few minutes). Did you use git-cvsimport or some other tool for the conversion? I tried to do an import only for the changes since 2008-01-01, but I got Fetching lisp/gnus-sum.el v 6.377.2.79 Update lisp/gnus-sum.el: 438664 bytes fatal: Not a valid object name refs/heads/v5-10 -David