From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:58:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20070805075800.GA4256@ugly.local> References: <46AFCF3E.5010805@alum.mit.edu> <65F1862F-4DF2-4A52-9FD5-20802AEACDAB@zib.de> <46B2132D.7090304@alum.mit.edu> <9e4733910708021659y6e9bb7ddk58817b4de3df26a0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Haggerty , Steffen Prohaska , git@vger.kernel.org, users@cvs2svn.tigris.org To: Jon Smirl X-From: users-return-1646-gcvscu-users=m.gmane.org@cvs2svn.tigris.org Sun Aug 05 09:58:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvscu-users@gmane.org Received: from sc157.sjc.collab.net ([204.16.104.146] helo=tigris.org) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHb03-0004Qy-2t for gcvscu-users@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:58:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 9873 invoked by uid 5000); 5 Aug 2007 07:58:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@cvs2svn.tigris.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list users@cvs2svn.tigris.org Received: (qmail 9861 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2007 07:58:04 -0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACIgtUaD9nj6n2dsb2JhbACOEgEBAgcEBgcIGA X-IronPort-AV: i="4.19,221,1183359600"; d="scan'208"; a="63619505:sNHT18209646" X-IRONPORT: SCANNED Mail-Followup-To: Jon Smirl , Michael Haggerty , Steffen Prohaska , git@vger.kernel.org, users@cvs2svn.tigris.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708021659y6e9bb7ddk58817b4de3df26a0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-07-16) Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:59:41PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > I seem to recall discussing an algorithm to fix this on the cvs2svn > mailing list. There was a somewhat simple way to correlate the > "unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the same as "unlabeled-1.2.6" > problem. > yes, name them after the first symbol that appears on them. like unlabeled-1.2.4 being named __KDE_3_5_RELEASE because of such tag (without the underscores, obviously) appearing on it. the naive per-file implementation doesn't get you that far, though. again, one'd have to collect data from all files first, correlate it and make a "majority vote". very similar to your favorite symbol source problem. ;) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.