		cvs-fast-export project news

1.40: 2016-09-07
    Add warnings about stock CVS vs. the MirOS patched version.

1.39: 2016-09-06
    Fix GitLab issue #8: Exporting with commitids does not coalesce changesets.

1.38: 2016-02-28
    All Python code in the suite is 2 & 3 polyglot and 8-bit clean.

1.37: 2016-01-29
    New -c option for when you can't trust commit-IDs.
    Port patch for Sun systems.

1.36: 2015-12-22
    Avoid a core dump in another pathological case.

1.35: 2015-11-23
    Properly handle CVS masters with nonempty access lists.
    Bail out gracefully on pathological masters with no revisions.

1.34: 2015-09-25
    Another Python compatibility fix.
    Fix inconsistent license header in revdir.c.

1.33: 2015-08-30
    Deal with a really annoying build-portability glitch around -lrt.
    Fix cvsconvert to be Python 2.6-compatible.

1.32: 2015-06-10
    Emit a source type declaration reposurgeon can use.
    Project now has a logo.

1.31: 2015-04-28
    Improve OSX portability. 

1.30: 2015-04-02
    Tagged branchlets created for CVS tags not matching a gitspace commits.
    Many portability fixes for *BSD.

1.29: 2014-12-17
    A significant improvement in the correctness of vendor-branch handling.
    More speed improvements.

1.28: 2014-12-08
    Fix for buggy emission of lines ending in @.
    More speedups, and dramatic reduction in working-set size.

1.27: 2014-11-27
    The bug that produced "unnumbered head" warnings has been fixed.

1.26: 2014-11-05
    cvscompare changed to cvsconvert, a validating wrapper script.
    The rules for keyword expansion have changed yet again.

1.25: 2014-11-03
    Simplify and fully document -k; it now requires an argument.
    In normal (non-promiscuous) mode, paths containing CVSROOT are ignored.
    There is a new wrapper script, 'cvscompare', for sanity-checking conversions.
    A HOWTO on reporting bugs has been added to the distribution.

1.24: 2014-10-30
    Bugfix release: a late change to I/O buffering in 1.23 was faulty.

1.23: 2014-10-29
    New -l option for redirecting logs during long conversions.
    More speedups and working-set reductions.
    Incremental dumping can now be done in fast mode.

1.22: 2014-10-21
    New --embed-id and --expand options by Robert deBath.

1.21: 2014-10-19
    When incremental dumping, suppress tags associated with old commits.
    Performance improved by x8; see also the new -F and -C options.
    New -a optio to dump a list of author IDs found in a repo.

1.20: 2014-10-08
    Files not ending with ,v are now ignored unless the new -P option is on.
    New -t option for parallelizing analysis on multicore systems.

1.19: 2014-10-04
    Dramatic speedups in some bottleneck functions.

1.18: 2014-10-02
    A bug in the regression tests was fixed by slowing down calls to CVS.

1.17: 2014-09-11
    Some changes to reduce working-set size. More internals documentation.

1.16: 2014-09-04
    Added an internals tour to the documentation. Polished some comments.
    Prevented a possible buffer overrun.  Fixed broken -R option.

1.15: 2014-09-02
    Fixed a nasty order-instability bug that was confounding testing.
    Add a fatal error check for when revision numbers in input get too long.
    A significant speed improvement by tuning one of the sort algorithms.

1.14: 2014-08-12
    Fixed several issues near ignore conversions.

1.13: 2014-08-11
    Allow ()<> in symbol names.
    Fix a minor memory leak.
    Make cvssync a bit more liberal about SourceForge hostnames.
    In cvssync, leading /cvsroot can be omitted on Sourceforge paths.
    In cvssync, leading /sources can be omitted on Savannah paths.

1.12: 2014-06-26
    Allow []! in symbol names.
    Python in the test suite now runs under 2.6.

1.11: 2014-06-06
    Teach cvssync about sourceware.org. 

1.10: 2014-03-28
    Prepends CVS default ignores to converted .cvsignores.
    Generates a .gitignore containing default CVS ignores when necessary.

1.9: 2014-03-08
    RCS/CVS usernames may now begin with a digit (patch by Jesse Weinstein).
    Cleaned up a mess around keyword expansion; it had been misdocumented.
    Fixed some minor bugs in the test suite.
    Fixed a signedness issue on 64-bit machines.

1.8: 2014-02-19
    Processing of hardlinks field was incorrect, is now fixed. 

1.7: 2014-02-18
    Allow # in symbol names.  Addresses a corner case in the NetBSD repository.

1.6: 2014-02-17
    Fix a brown-paper-bag bug in cvssync.

1.5: 2014-02-16
    Skip a hardlinks field, if present.
    Add a -c option to cvssync that makes mirrors with CVSROOTs.

1.4: 2014-02-04
    Optimization to call sbrk() less often needs to be conditioned on GCC.

1.3: 2014-01-23
    Improved performance on masters with lots of symbols; thank Jens Bethkowsky.

1.2: 2014-01-04
    Smarter blob directory creation to reduce search overhead for blobs.

1.1: 2014-01-03
    Cope with CVS-NT kopt strings containing garbage binary data.

1.0: 2013-12-28
    Bug fix: Non-top-level .cvsignores are now converted.
    More speed and significant lowering of memory usage.
    Most error messages are now explained on the manual page.

0.8: 2013-12-16
    Processing speed has approximately tripled since last release.
    cvs-fast-export has save progress metering again.
    cvssync can now take a CVS URL argument.

0.7: 2013-12-15
    -i option for incremental dumping.
    -p option for enabling load status reports.
    Many documentation improvements.
    There is now a regression-test suite for the package.
    cvssync tool for mirroring remote CVS repos added.

0.6: 2013-12-10
    Improvements for CVS-NT support.
    Improve timing of missing-commitids message

0.5: 2013-05-21
    CVS-NT support. Code is Coverity-clean.

0.4: 2013-05-16
    Fix buggy handling of -k option.
    Add --remote (-e) and --stripprefix (-s) options.
    Avoid recursion overflow on very large repos.
    The fast-import stream ops are now emitted in the same order git uses.

0.3: 2013-01-16
    Fix a bonehead packaging error.

0.2: 2012-01-12
    Code revamped to emit a fast-export stream. Manual page added.

0.1: 2006-03-09
    Original code by Keith Packard; traveled as 'parsecvs'.
