Re: Git conversion status

On 09/20/2010 08:05 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 19:49, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 19:34, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>>> Please fix and re-run.
>>>
>>>> Uh, what the heck. I ran the exact same command as last time.. Hmm:
>>>> Stefan rbeooted the machine in between, I wonder if that changed
>>>> something.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure we ever checked that. My comparisons against the tarballs
>>> were done from my own run of the conversion script. I'm using C locale
>>> here, probably you aren't?
>>
>> Correct, I'm in en_US. I'm trying a "cvs export" in "C" now to see exaclty what changes.
>> Hmm
>>
>> Nope, doesn't seem to change. I just set my LANG=C, and ran a "cvs export". but it comes back with "-" in the dates, so it seems to not care about that.
>>
>> ("locale" clearly shows it's changed everything to C though)
>>
>> Is there a cvs setting for this somewhere that you know of?
>
> Think I found it.
>
> debian applies a patch to change it. If I set DateStyle=old in
> CVSROOT/config, cvs export behaves sanely. I'll re-run with that
> setting.

actually as I understand it the behaviour changed in cvs 1.12.x and
debian applied a patch to provide the old output for backwards
compatibility...

Stefan