Re: [PATCH] Change git-cvsimport to handle slashes in CVS tags

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> I dunno. But maybe we do want the option of just keeping it as a slash, 
> and teach git-cvsimport to create the proper subdirectory prefixes.

How about doing both?

I think patch by Johannes to allow replacing slash to arbitrary
string is a reasonable thing to have, but somebody who uses
cvsimport needs to sign that off for me -- I do not regularly
use git-ANYimport myself.

> I have no idea how to do that in perl, though. Right now it just does
>
> 	open(C,">$git_dir/refs/tags/$xtag")
>
> how would you do "create file with all path components"?

Something like this? 

use File::Path;
my $file = "$git_dir/refs/tags/$xtag";
my ($dir) =  $file =~ m/(.*)\//;
mkpath($dir) && open C, ">$file";


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