{"id":7439,"date":"2017-03-20T07:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2017-03-20T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:29:48","slug":"cvs-fast-export-1-43-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7439","title":{"rendered":"cvs-fast-export 1.43 is released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/cvs-fast-export\/\">cvs-fast-export<\/a> is, frankly, a pain in the ass. Parts of the code I inherited are head-achingly opaque. CVS repositories are chronically prone to malformations that look like bugs in the tool and\/or can&#8217;t be adapted to in any safe way. Its actual bugs are obscure and often difficult to fix &#8211; the experience is not unlike groping for razor-blades in the dark. But people expect cvs-fast-export to &#8220;just work&#8221; anyway and don&#8217;t know enough about what a <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6772\">Zeno&#8217;s tarpit<\/a> the domain problem is to be properly grateful when it does.<\/p>\n<p>Still I persevere. Somebody has to; the thought of vital code being trapped in CVS is pretty nervous-making if you know everything that can go wrong with it. <\/p>\n<p>This release fixes a bug introduced by an incorrect optimization hack in 2014.  It should only have affected you if you tried to use the -c option.<\/p>\n<p>If you use this at a place that pays developers, please have your organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/esr\">contribute to my Patreon feed<\/a>. Some of my projects are a pleasure to do for free; this one is grubby, hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining cvs-fast-export is, frankly, a pain in the ass. Parts of the code I inherited are head-achingly opaque. CVS repositories are chronically prone to malformations that look like bugs in the tool and\/or can&#8217;t be adapted to in any safe way. Its actual bugs are obscure and often difficult to fix &#8211; the experience is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7439\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">cvs-fast-export 1.43 is released<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-version-control","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7443,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}