Why is git-cvsimport missing one major patchset?

Question

This is a followup to a previous question of mine.

I can look through the output of cvsps (saved in my ~/.cvsps directory) and see a patchset for a major, complicated co

Answer 1

Hmm, the good news is that git-cvsimport appears to be written in Perl, and I happen to be a Perl programmer, so maybe I can at least step through this with the Perl debugger to find out what happens during that commit.

For anyone who wants to try this, you'll have to locate the full path to git-cvsimport and feed it to perl (the Perl interpreter) with the -d switch:

perl -d /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-cvsimport

I haven't gotten all the other options worked out to do this, yet ... I'll need to feed git-cvsimport the output of cvsps directly, I think...