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

[Sylvain Beucler]

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