Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:41:01AM -0400, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
> Some progress.  Below is the cvs log from perl.c for the first 800 and some
> changes.  There's a few bugs to work out yet (including the one in VCP::Dest::cvs
> that crapped out at change 871, but you get the idea.  It's also not labelling
> every revision of a file at every change number, which makes change number labels
> near useless, I think.
> 
> Feedback welcome.

I noticed that CVS reports this as part of the version logs:

date: 2000/09/13 05:49:30;  author: cvs;  state: Exp;  lines: +19 -19
date: 2000/09/13 05:46:57;  author: cvs;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
date: 2000/09/13 05:45:48;  author: cvs;  state: Exp;  lines: +29 -7
[....]

This sorta means that 'cvs annotate' is kinda useless since this
'cvs' dude is doing all of the patching.  ;-)  

By comparison, here's what we have in the Perforce logs.  Jarkko
and Sarathy do a good job of including the relevant mail headers
in the logs, which are now in Barrie's CVS version.

[  7001] By: jhi                                   on 2000/09/01  23:00:13
[  7000] By: jhi                                   on 2000/09/01  22:36:01
[  6999] By: gsar                                  on 2000/09/01  22:16:40
[  6998] By: jhi                                   on 2000/09/01  22:14:16

(It would be even nicer to see who actually wrote the patch if a single
patch is being applied with each change, but that sounds like a lot of
work.)

Z.