5 This directory contains code which can directly read RCS ,v files and
6 generate a git-style rev-list structure from them. Revision lists can be
7 merged together to produce a composite revision history for an arbitrary
10 Optional behaviors are controlled by editing the source and recompiling.
12 If arguments are supplied, parsecvs assumes they're all ,v files and reads
13 them in. If no arguments are supplied, parsecvs reads filenames from stdin,
18 Attic support. Files found in the Attic are not dealt with specially
19 at all; they should be renamed in the output, and the terminal
20 revision noted so that they don't appear in later revision. I think
21 fixing this will be reasonably straightforward.
23 Disjoint branch resolution. Branches occurring in a subset of the
24 files are not correctly resolved; instead, an entirely disjoint
25 history will be created containing the branch revisions and all
26 parents back to the root. I'm not sure how to fix this; it seems
27 to implicitly assume there will be only a single place to attach as
28 branch parent, which may not be the case. In any case, the right
29 revision will have a superset of the revisions present in the
30 original branch parent; perhaps that will suffice.
32 Connection to git. As mentioned above, the code doesn't actually
33 connect to git yet, so while it can generate lovely graphs, it won't
34 do anything useful. I think this is reasonably straight forward as
35 well; we've got a revision history containing the necessary version
36 of every file at each point in time. This could either be done by
37 emitting git commands and sending them to a shell, or by linking
38 against a git library and doing everything internally.
40 Author translation. Just as git cvsimport does.
45 Reasonable command line syntax. The current lack of command line
46 parsing should be fixed to align with the usual git tools.
48 Testing. I'm sure there are plenty of additional bugs to be found;
49 I've tested with valgrind and eliminated memory leaks and other