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

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Please precise "doesn't work", so we can try and reproduce the exact
problem quickly.

- Sylvain

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:54:37AM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> 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