From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:07:07 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation fix. X-Git-Tag: 0.1~50 X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f84c5a7c9f4e5a0a4af35ad317b6517627cc15af;p=rcs-fast-import.git Documentation fix. --- diff --git a/rcs-fast-import.xml b/rcs-fast-import.xml index 3e0d7ce..a643fc9 100644 --- a/rcs-fast-import.xml +++ b/rcs-fast-import.xml @@ -60,22 +60,18 @@ as to maximize access to the unpacked history. all logic other than actually creating files. Useful for debugging in combination with -v. -R file operations rename corresponding RCS master files; C file operations -copy them. +R file operations rename corresponding RCS master files; C operations +initialize a new file. BUGS -This tool has not been tested with RCS versions earlier than 5.7. -It is likely they will throw errors on some tag and branch names that -are legal in fast-import files. - The following limitations are inherent in the RCS format: -If D, R, or C operations are present in the import stream, the +If D or R operations are present in the import stream, the conversion will not round-trip properly (that is the file structure -after , rcs-fast-export | rcs-fast-import won't be an exact copy) with -differences near deleted, renamed, and copied files. +after rcs-fast-export | rcs-fast-import won't be an exact copy) with +differences near deleted and renamed. In each commit, the committer date entered in RCS metadata will be the committer date from the import stream, but the committer @@ -93,6 +89,10 @@ the tool will throw an error if it sees one. The following are implementation limits of this tool which may be fixed in a future release: +This tool has not been tested with RCS versions earlier than +5.7. It is likely older versions will throw errors on some tag and +branch names that are legal in fast-import files. + All annotated-tag metadata other than the tag name will be lost. Branch structure in the input stream is not yet mapped to RCS