Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps

From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:33 -0500

Martin Langhoff <[email-masked]>:
> In my prior work, the "better" CVS importers would not have stable
> output, so were not appropriate for incremental imports.

That is disturbing.  I would consider lack of stability a severe and
unacceptable failure mode in such a tool, if only because of the
difficulties it creates for proper regression testing.

If cvs-fast-export does not already have this property I will fix it 
so it does.  And document that fact.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>