Re: Git conversion status

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.

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