commit: use generations in paint_down_to_common()

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 98d9881d7e891e4728c09f6536c3506b3688d145..de1ebed67d7cbc5ba3859551300b76f20a580ef1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new
+*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered
+deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later.  If you are
+performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
+http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
+http://www.catb.org/esr/cvs-fast-export/[cvs-fast-export].
+
+Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new
 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
 
 Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'.
@@ -59,19 +65,19 @@ OPTIONS
        `CVS/Repository`.
 
 -C <target-dir>::
-        The git repository to import to.  If the directory doesn't
+       The Git repository to import to.  If the directory doesn't
         exist, it will be created.  Default is the current directory.
 
 -r <remote>::
-       The git remote to import this CVS repository into.
+       The Git remote to import this CVS repository into.
        Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch>
        akin to the way 'git clone' uses 'origin' by default.
 
 -o <branch-for-HEAD>::
-       When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch
-       from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the git
-       repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git.
-       When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named
+       When no remote is specified (via -r) the `HEAD` branch
+       from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the Git
+       repository, as `HEAD` already has a special meaning for Git.
+       When a remote is specified the `HEAD` branch is named
        remotes/<remote>/master mirroring 'git clone' behaviour.
        Use this option if you want to import into a different
        branch.
@@ -97,7 +103,7 @@ the old cvs2git tool.
 
 -p <options-for-cvsps>::
        Additional options for cvsps.
-       The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here.
+       The options `-u` and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here.
 +
 If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
 
@@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
 
 -M <regex>::
        Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
-       regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes
+       regex. It can be used with `-m` to enable the default regexes
        as well. You must escape forward slashes.
 +
 The regex must capture the source branch name in $1.
@@ -138,7 +144,7 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes.
        CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its
        commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
        maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and
-       optional timezone:
+       optional time zone:
 +
 ---------
        exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
@@ -148,7 +154,7 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes.
 +
 'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had
 their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
-all along.  If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will
+all along.  If a time zone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will
 have the corresponding offset applied.
 +
 For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors`
@@ -180,7 +186,7 @@ messages, bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like.
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
-If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
+If `-v` is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
 
 Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with
 a zero exit status.
@@ -213,11 +219,9 @@ Problems related to tags:
 * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
 
 If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
-want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be
-more stable in practice:
+want to import, consider using cvs2git:
 
-* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
-* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`
+* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/`
 
 GIT
 ---