Subject: Re: import determinism

From: Enrico Weigelt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:43:37 +0100

* Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > For cvsimport, it is not deterministic. Given cvs'
> > ambiguous/buggy/inconsistent internal semantics around some
> > operations, cvsps makes educated guesses about what happened.
> >
> > Later commits can affect those educated guesses.
> 
> The OP was assuming an unchanging repository.

My assumption is:

* the original cvs repo will have later additions
  (so I'm incrementally importing)
* no commints (besides cvsimport) in the git mirror, but others
  for off from there
* the mirror could get lost in an desaster (no separate backup)
  and should be recreated afresh in that case.

The point behind this is: I'm running a growing number of cvs2git
mirrors and dont want to do full backups of them.

cu
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