cvsimport: skip commits that are too recent (option and documentation)

diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
index c5bf2d19cda6104f4fa9ade7c1407bb6ab8b5d1e..a86ee3cb18ce2d182608c4ce360d4b98844d3bad 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 $SIG{'PIPE'}="IGNORE";
 $ENV{'TZ'}="UTC";
 
-our ($opt_h,$opt_o,$opt_v,$opt_k,$opt_u,$opt_d,$opt_p,$opt_C,$opt_z,$opt_i,$opt_P, $opt_s,$opt_m,$opt_M,$opt_A,$opt_S,$opt_L);
+our ($opt_h,$opt_o,$opt_v,$opt_k,$opt_u,$opt_d,$opt_p,$opt_C,$opt_z,$opt_i,$opt_P, $opt_s,$opt_m,$opt_M,$opt_A,$opt_S,$opt_L, $opt_a);
 my (%conv_author_name, %conv_author_email);
 
 sub usage() {
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ ()
 Usage: ${\basename $0}     # fetch/update GIT from CVS
        [-o branch-for-HEAD] [-h] [-v] [-d CVSROOT] [-A author-conv-file]
        [-p opts-for-cvsps] [-C GIT_repository] [-z fuzz] [-i] [-k] [-u]
-       [-s subst] [-m] [-M regex] [-S regex] [CVS_module]
+       [-s subst] [-a] [-m] [-M regex] [-S regex] [CVS_module]
 END
        exit(1);
 }
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ ($)
 }
 $opt_o ||= "origin";
 $opt_s ||= "-";
+$opt_a ||= 0;
+
 my $git_tree = $opt_C;
 $git_tree ||= ".";
 
@@ -129,6 +131,11 @@ ($)
        push (@mergerx, qr/$opt_M/);
 }
 
+# Remember UTC of our starting time
+# we'll want to avoid importing commits
+# that are too recent
+our $starttime = time();
+
 select(STDERR); $|=1; select(STDOUT);
 
 
@@ -824,6 +831,15 @@ sub commit {
                        $state = 11;
                        next;
                }
+               if (!$opt_a && $starttime - 300 - (defined $opt_z ? $opt_z : 300) <= $date) {
+                       # skip if the commit is too recent
+                       # that the cvsps default fuzz is 300s, we give ourselves another
+                       # 300s just in case -- this also prevents skipping commits
+                       # due to server clock drift
+                       print "skip patchset $patchset: $date too recent\n" if $opt_v;
+                       $state = 11;
+                       next;
+               }
                if (exists $ignorebranch{$branch}) {
                        print STDERR "Skipping $branch\n";
                        $state = 11;