From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Packard Subject: Re: git-cvsimport doesn't quite work, wrt branches Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:46:51 -0700 Message-ID: <1150224411.20536.79.camel@neko.keithp.com> References: <87irn5ovn6.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5aMpBWUU3BuEAvn7LpYU" Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Jim Meyering , Git Mailing List , Matthias Urlichs , Yann Dirson , Pavel Roskin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 13 20:47:34 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 1FqDv6-0005r5-0p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:47:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932127AbWFMSrR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932131AbWFMSrR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:47:17 -0400 Received: from home.keithp.com ([63.227.221.253]:62727 "EHLO keithp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932127AbWFMSrQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:47:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8286313001F; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from keithp.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (keithp.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14310-03; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by keithp.com (Postfix, from userid 1033) id EF0BB13001E; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neko.keithp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6D714001; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by neko.keithp.com (Postfix, from userid 1488) id DE21C54337; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:46:51 -0700 (PDT) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --=-5aMpBWUU3BuEAvn7LpYU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, it's a cvsps problem.=20 >=20 > Big surprise. Yeah, we've got git-cvsimport cvsps cvs rlog ,v files cvs rlog is designed to 'represent' the history of the repository to users. Cvsps was built as a software analysis tool, and is used by putative software engineering researchers. Basing a supposedly lossless repository conversion system on this pair seems foolish to me, notwithstanding the heroic efforts to make it work. --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-5aMpBWUU3BuEAvn7LpYU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEjwgbQp8BWwlsTdMRAmARAJ4zW0HSkFd0tYBTYLkIADtBBYae8gCfa79/ 3csfzTDB7y+IHXsqcKq8A38= =7EEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5aMpBWUU3BuEAvn7LpYU--