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From: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>
Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:45:50 +0200
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Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> I do not think Eric is right here.  You will allways lose information 
> when converting CVS to svn, and if it is just the uncertainty, the 
> non-atomicity.  This is also information (hidden one, though).

Full ACK.

> Yes.  I've already done what people want, it is not called cvs2xxx, but 
> fromcvs [1].  I don't think it is necessary to define an output format.  
> Of course, that's possible, but limiting yourself to a file format means 
> you're losing flexibility, which is needed for efficient, correct and 
> fast repository conversion.

Hm.. interesting. I'll have a close look.

Regards

Markus