From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs•ei.tum.de>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:20:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B99D9C.40908@fs.ei.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90701251806k719dd35p7b13fe049b9cf25c@mail.gmail.com>
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Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs•ei.tum.de> wrote:
>> how do you expect this to ever work? your tag is not a time stable one.
> I agree on that, but you _can_ try a range of importers. I think you
> should give Keith Packard's parsecvs a try. It is memory-bound and
> won't do incremental imports but it manages to import some repos
> cvsimport can't do directly.
whichever importer you try, it *will* fail to create pure tags equivalent to the CVS tag. it is not possible. of course you can do trickery and create branches to simulate crooked tags.
> The other option is to use cvs2svn, which is the most conservative and
> careful importer around, and most likely to be able to deal with your
> insane tags. And then git-svnimport right after ;-)
yes, cvs2svn is quite top notch regarding the brokenness in repos it tolerates. however, going from svn to git is equally complicated again, as you can't nicely convert svn's copy-to-branch if it again copies files from different revisions. you just converted the problem to svn, but you didn't make it go away.
cheers
simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 6:20 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
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 [this message]
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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