Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Readme missing examples #5

Open
UnitedMarsupials-zz opened this issue Apr 9, 2018 · 1 comment
Open

Readme missing examples #5

UnitedMarsupials-zz opened this issue Apr 9, 2018 · 1 comment

Comments

@UnitedMarsupials-zz
Copy link

UnitedMarsupials-zz commented Apr 9, 2018

How would I use this tool? It compiled nicely, but, when I run it:
find RCS -name '*,v' | xargs /tmp/parsecvs/parsecvs -A map
I just get some text dumped to stdout. There seems to be some system to it, but what do I do with it? Feed it to some other tool (like git with some special flags)?

This is the information, that README files are usually for. What's currently in it may belong to something like HISTORY, but README show concentrate on usage instructions and other information, the would be user ought to read...

There is something like a man-page in parsecvs.asc, but that has no real examples either. And the sole example offered in it elicits an error:

parsecvs: invalid option -- k
Try `/tmp/parsecvs/parsecvs --help' for more information.
@BartMassey
Copy link
Owner

Yeah, parsecvs is not well-documented. As it currently stands, its output is currently intended for git fast-import, so you can take a look at the manpage for that. I have no idea why -k no longer works.

Honestly, I haven't even thought about this code for years, so I don't have much to offer. Patches welcome as always.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants