user-manual: minor rewording for clarity.

[git.git] / git-cvsexportcommit.perl

diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
index e9832d2bb913d61ce8a92ddf32e009ad59659d53..26844af4390b8b0902ad853f40e4d9f60b75fd23 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
+++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ if ($opt_d) {
        @cvs = ('cvs');
 }
 
-# setup a tempdir
-our ($tmpdir, $tmpdirname) = tempdir('git-cvsapplycommit-XXXXXX',
-                                    TMPDIR => 1,
-                                    CLEANUP => 1);
-
 # resolve target commit
 my $commit;
 $commit = pop @ARGV;
@@ -87,6 +82,7 @@ foreach my $line (@commit) {
     }
 }
 
+my $noparent = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000";
 if ($parent) {
     my $found;
     # double check that it's a valid parent
@@ -100,8 +96,10 @@ if ($parent) {
 } else { # we don't have a parent from the cmdline...
     if (@parents == 1) { # it's safe to get it from the commit
        $parent = $parents[0];
-    } else { # or perhaps not!
-       die "This commit has more than one parent -- please name the parent you want to use explicitly";
+    } elsif (@parents == 0) { # there is no parent
+        $parent = $noparent;
+    } else { # cannot choose automatically from multiple parents
+        die "This commit has more than one parent -- please name the parent you want to use explicitly";
     }
 }
 
@@ -121,7 +119,11 @@ if ($opt_a) {
 }
 close MSG;
 
-`git-diff-tree --binary -p $parent $commit >.cvsexportcommit.diff`;# || die "Cannot diff";
+if ($parent eq $noparent) {
+    `git-diff-tree --binary -p --root $commit >.cvsexportcommit.diff`;# || die "Cannot diff";
+} else {
+    `git-diff-tree --binary -p $parent $commit >.cvsexportcommit.diff`;# || die "Cannot diff";
+}
 
 ## apply non-binary changes
 
@@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ my $context = $opt_p ? '' : '-C1';
 print "Checking if patch will apply\n";
 
 my @stat;
-open APPLY, "GIT_DIR= git-apply $context --binary --summary --numstat<.cvsexportcommit.diff|" || die "cannot patch";
+open APPLY, "GIT_DIR= git-apply $context --summary --numstat<.cvsexportcommit.diff|" || die "cannot patch";
 @stat=<APPLY>;
 close APPLY || die "Cannot patch";
 my (@bfiles,@files,@afiles,@dfiles);
@@ -220,10 +222,21 @@ if ($dirty) {
 }
 
 print "Applying\n";
-`GIT_DIR= git-apply $context --binary --summary --numstat --apply <.cvsexportcommit.diff` || die "cannot patch";
+`GIT_DIR= git-apply $context --summary --numstat --apply <.cvsexportcommit.diff` || die "cannot patch";
 
 print "Patch applied successfully. Adding new files and directories to CVS\n";
 my $dirtypatch = 0;
+
+#
+# We have to add the directories in order otherwise we will have
+# problems when we try and add the sub-directory of a directory we
+# have not added yet.
+#
+# Luckily this is easy to deal with by sorting the directories and
+# dealing with the shortest ones first.
+#
+@dirs = sort { length $a <=> length $b} @dirs;
+
 foreach my $d (@dirs) {
     if (system(@cvs,'add',$d)) {
        $dirtypatch = 1;
@@ -281,6 +294,11 @@ if ($opt_c) {
 # clean up
 unlink(".cvsexportcommit.diff");
 
+# CVS version 1.11.x and 1.12.x sleeps the wrong way to ensure the timestamp
+# used by CVS and the one set by subsequence file modifications are different.
+# If they are not different CVS will not detect changes.
+sleep(1);
+
 sub usage {
        print STDERR <<END;
 Usage: GIT_DIR=/path/to/.git ${\basename $0} [-h] [-p] [-v] [-c] [-f] [-m msgprefix] [ parent ] commit