From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
weigelt@metux.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: import determinism
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:45:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d3qgu50c.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikXxM=CfU2dKAY9khi1_tAsGDdUEc8S5AxooGH9@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Langhoff's message of "Sun, 7 Nov 2010 17:20:17 -0500")
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> The committer info in every commit will be the same as the author info,
>> so the repository conversion is completely deterministic.
>
> 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.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-07 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-07 20:25 import determinism Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-07 20:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-11-07 21:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-07 21:56 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-07 22:20 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-11-07 22:45 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-11-09 13:43 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-10 4:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-11-10 16:18 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-10 21:25 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-11-10 22:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-11 4:28 ` Michael Haggerty
2010-11-11 13:09 ` Enrico Weigelt
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