Re: Git conversion status

On 09/20/2010 08:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner<stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>  writes:
>> On 09/20/2010 08:05 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> 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...
>
> Well, I'm testing with an unmodified copy of 1.12.13, and I got output
> matching our historical tarballs.  So I'm blaming debian for this one.

not sure  - if I read the CVS changelog the "new style" output only 
triggers if both the server AND the client are > 1.12.x (for some value 
of x on both).
As far as I know magnus is using a debian based CVS server for his 
testing so that would certainly be 1.12.x - are you too?


Stefan