From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs•ei.tum.de>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:35:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B8C032.7020004@fs.ei.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070125142242.1402.qmail@b4b5deb4d44aa3.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
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Gerrit Pape wrote:
> Hi, I struggle with importing a CVS repository into git to switch over
> development. In some branches there're differences in the source code
> after importing into git. We tracked this down to tags and branches
> that where tagged partially in CVS, first a tag was set on one
> subdirectory tree (sources), later on another subdirectory tree (docs).
> This confuses cvsimport or cvsps, the tag in git after import doesn't
> match the tag in CVS.
how do you expect this to ever work? your tag is not a time stable one. the tag spans multiple change sets. best forget the whole tag thing, seriously. my cvs converter [1] already has a hard time reproducing branches correctly. doing this with tags is impossible. svn can do this because they don't have tags, so it is a kind of fake. of course you could do this in git as well by actually creating a branch for a tag, but it is really messy. just don't do that.
good luck
simon
[1]: <http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs>, not 100% yet, but probably the best you can get at the moment. i'm a perfectionist, so i might never call it "done".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-25 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 14:22 cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch Gerrit Pape
2007-01-25 14:35 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert [this message]
2007-01-25 15:05 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-01-25 16:24 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-25 17:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-26 2:06 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-26 6:20 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-26 23:12 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-01-26 9:00 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-01-26 11:56 ` Jakub Narebski
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