From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:44:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20060324124410.GB3070@linux-mips.org> References: <20060322133337.GU20746@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 24 13:44:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMleT-0000Fr-Pw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:44:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932607AbWCXMoW (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:44:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932619AbWCXMoW (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:44:22 -0500 Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([194.74.144.162]:45748 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932607AbWCXMoV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:44:21 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:6549 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133903AbWCXMeP (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:34:15 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2OCiBRI005849; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:44:11 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k2OCiB5b005848; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:44:11 GMT To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:39:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > it's "PatchSet 104" (well, for me it is, I have a hacked cvsps, so it > might not be that for you), which creates the "gdb-4_18-branch", but it > appears that cvsps hasn't actually figured out any "Ancestor branch" for > that commit. > > What a crock. > > Anyway, it's clearly a cvsps bug (mentioning a new branch without the > _source_ of that branch). Equally clearly, "git cvsimport" is being an ass > about then failing so totally on it. > > I'll try to take a look at why cvsps does that. Last I converted CVS trees to git found that about half of the branches were branching off from the wrong commit of the parent branch. At that time I decieded to just move the branch using a quick script instead of diving into cvsps. Ralf