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  1. === Release 0.5, December 1997
  2.  
  3. This was an informal release to Perforce, so James could see what it
  4. was like.
  5.  
  6.  
  7. === Release 1.0, January 30, 1998
  8.  
  9. - Contains several bug fixes you really want if you intend to use this
  10.   for real.
  11.  
  12. - Verified the results of a complete conversion of the NetApp Data ONTAP
  13.   source base, by converting then doing file-by file comparisons of
  14.   the results of checking trees out from both CVS and Perforce, across
  15.   several branches.
  16.  
  17. - Added minimal user documentation in the README file.
  18.  
  19. - Added a minimal automated test script.
  20.  
  21. - Placed under the Artistic license.
  22.  
  23.  
  24. === Release 1.0.1, February 3, 1998
  25.  
  26. - Incorporate James Strickland's README edits
  27.  
  28. - make bin/* kxtext
  29.  
  30. - bin/* script now find perl via PATH (it must be perl5 or they
  31.   will fail).
  32.  
  33. - MANIFEST doesn't try to check checksums on FreeBSD systems.
  34.  
  35. - Added $CO to the test/config template file for specifying where to
  36.   find the RCS "co" command
  37.  
  38. - CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL defaults to "10" for running the test config,
  39.   but "0" otherwise in the test/config template.
  40.  
  41.  
  42. === Release 1.0.2, February 9, 1998
  43.  
  44. - Incorporate README typos fixes from James Strickland
  45.  
  46. - tests/* executables find Perl via $PATH
  47.  
  48. - Remove dup entry for test/changes.good from MANIFEST
  49.  
  50. - Remove "." from $check_submits in bin/dochanges (the "." was there for
  51.   debugging, and, in effect, disables all output error checks on submits!
  52.  
  53. === Release 1.1, March 10, 1998
  54.  
  55. - Change conversion client name from "dochanges" to "cvs2p4"
  56.  
  57. - The CVS trunk is now created as "main" in the Perforce depot.
  58.  
  59. - Converts "$Header: //guest/rick_richardson/perforce/utils/cvs2p4/NEWS#1 $" to "$Id: //guest/rick_richardson/perforce/utils/cvs2p4/NEWS#1 $" for text files.
  60.  
  61. - Added support for "vendor" branches (RCS branch 1.1.1); becomes branch
  62.   "import" in Perforce.
  63.  
  64. - Added SYM_SPECIAL support for selectively importing top level subdirs
  65.   of a CVS module via symlinks.
  66.  
  67. - Optimizations for genchanges, which help *lots( with huge checkins
  68.   of vendor-supplied branches (I.e., where there are many changes with
  69.   large numbers of files).
  70.  
  71. - Fixed a bug in genchanges such that, for purposes of change grouping,
  72.   all revisions were considered to have happened in the midnight hour
  73.   (plus the actual number of minutes after the hour at which they actually
  74.   occurred). Taken with the other grouping hueristics, this was pretty
  75.   benign, I think, but it's fixed now.
  76.  
  77. - Fixed a bug wherein checkppoints were always trying to checkpoint the
  78.   server at port 1666 on the host running the server.
  79.  
  80. - Also, *only* do checkpoints at NetApp, 'cause they depend p4d_admin!
  81.  
  82. - Take a checkpoint at the very end
  83.  
  84. - Now detects binary files in additional ways:
  85.     perl -B operator
  86.     known list of binary file extensions (hardcoded into dochanges for now)
  87.   (This helps where binaries were checked in to CVS but nobody told CVS
  88.   by selecting a binary keyword expansion mode).
  89.  
  90. - The diffs in the test stuff in 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 was inadvertantly disabled,
  91.   so you could get false PASSes. Oops. Fixed.
  92.   
  93. === Release 1.1.1, March 10, 1998
  94.  
  95. - Damn. The fix for multi-binary detection was not complete. It is now.
  96.   Really. At least it had better be, I'm about to convert 25K p4 changes
  97.   worth of our real source with this sucker...
  98.  
  99. === Release 1.2
  100.  
  101. - Implement "dochanges -s <n>" to make the converter restartable. Yeah.
  102.   
  103. - Added a couple of test cases for branch tags sharing tip & trunk revs.
  104.  
  105. - Reimplement revmap to do per-revision stuff, to allow for merging.
  106.  
  107. - Fix ALLTHEWAYBACK to look for the earliest non-trunk revision actually
  108.   selected by any branch tag - not just the earliest one where a real
  109.   branch was found.
  110.  
  111. * This was the version used during our actual main CVS -> Perforce
  112.   conversion on 3/20-3/21 1998.
  113.  
  114. === Release 1.2.1
  115.  
  116. - Fix bug reported by Ed Rapoport, wherein:
  117.  
  118.     "There was a problem, however, in the case of cvs files where
  119.     there were at least two branches with the second branch branching
  120.     off the first, but not yet having a delta created in the cvs file
  121.     (an "incipient" branch) The incipient branch name (br_orca_autocal
  122.     in the example) got applied to its parent branch (br_orca_intermed
  123.     in the example) and the parent branch name got applied to the
  124.     child incipient branch in perforce."
  125.  
  126. === Release 1.2.2
  127.  
  128. - Fix spurious error reports from the final diff (p4_describe vs
  129.   p4_describe.good) when running the test cases with r98.2.  (This was
  130.   caused by an apparent change, in which the diffs produced by the
  131.   r97.3 "p4 describe" include Id keyword expansions, but the r98.2
  132.   "p4 describe" does not).
  133.  
  134. === Release 1.2.3
  135.  
  136. - Only attempt checkpointing if $CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL > 0. (So I can really
  137.   turn it off in the config file!)
  138.  
  139. - Fix bug reported by Todd LaWall <toddl@SiTera.com>, wherein:
  140.  
  141.     a branched file, that has not been changed since the branch was
  142.     made, is dropped from the branch, if $BRANCH_FLASH is not defined
  143.     in the cvs2p4 config file. (bug in genmetadata).
  144.  
  145. === Release 1.2.4
  146.  
  147. - In some circumstances, "p4 files" can return a different error message
  148.   for "p4 files foo", when "foo" doesn't already exist in the depot.
  149.   This change allows "dochanges" to work properly when this happens.
  150.   (The precise circumstances in which the alternate message is returned
  151.   are not yet well characterized).
  152.    
  153. === Release 1.2.5 January 3, 2000.
  154.  
  155. - This adds adjustments for making cvs2p4 cope correctly with post-1999
  156.   revisions in the RCS archives being converted, as supplied by David Simon
  157.   of Goldman Sachs. (Thanks).
  158.  
  159.  
  160. === Release 1.2.6, January 18, 2000.
  161.  
  162. - The conversion scripts should now be able to cope with shell metacharacters
  163.   (notable, ' ' and '$') in file names. This has not been thouroughly tested,
  164.   so if you do have such files, please pay particualr scrutiny to them.
  165.  
  166.  
  167. === Release 1.2.7, April 5, 2000.
  168.  
  169. - A fix for a bug that caused genmetadata to croak when it
  170.   encountered an RCS file with the default branch set, a la
  171.   "rcs -b1 file,v"
  172.  
  173. === Release 1.2.8, May 11, 2000.
  174.  
  175. - Handles cr/lf line endings in RCS archives.
  176.  
  177. === Release 1.2.9, May 16, 2000.
  178.  
  179. - Allow "." in "id" symbols in RCS files. (Author names like "ralph.spoilsport")
  180.  
  181. === Release 1.2.10, August 24, 2000.
  182.  
  183. - Tolerate "empty" RCS ,v files that can (reportedly) be created due to
  184.   certain failing cvs operations. (These files will be ignored;
  185.   previously, they would cause a fatal error in genmetadata).
  186.  
  187. === Release 1.2.11, August 30, 2000.
  188.  
  189. - Skip (and note) ,v files with nonprintable characters in the fileame.
  190.  
  191. === Release 1.2.12, September 11, 2000.
  192.  
  193. - Includes a bugfix, supplied by Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr>,
  194.   to correctly handle the fact that RCS timestamps in repository files
  195.   are in UTC; this was causing the timestamps to be off (by the
  196.   difference between UTC and the Perforce server's local time) in
  197.   converted depots, and, in some cases, cause outright
  198.   failures. (I.e., when the UTC time had never existed in local time,
  199.   due to daylight savings transitions.)
  200.  
  201. === Release 1.2.13, September 12, 2000.
  202.  
  203. - Fixes a bug (resulting in bad date translations) introduced in the
  204.   bugfix in 1.2.12. (Fix supplied by Thomas Quinot).
  205.  
  206. === Release 1.2.14, November 20, 2000.
  207.  
  208. - Now performs metadata sort using a sort routine coded directly in perl,
  209.   rather than by using the host system's "sort" command. (Differences
  210.   in "sort" behavior from one host to another had been observed to
  211.   cause irregularities).
  212.  
  213. === Release 1.2.15, December 12, 2000.
  214.  
  215. - Now rejects filenames with illegal Perforce characters.
  216.   (Fix supplied by Doug Quist).
  217.  
  218. --------------------------------------
  219. $Id: //guest/rick_richardson/perforce/utils/cvs2p4/NEWS#1 $
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