From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Schiltknecht Subject: Re: cvs import Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:04:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4508724D.2050701@bluegap.ch> References: <45084400.1090906@bluegap.ch> <9e4733910609131201q7f583029r72dac66cd0dd098f@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90609131341se42b2dcne73c017cf757d13a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@cvs2svn.tigris.org, monotone-devel@nongnu.org, Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List X-From: monotone-devel-bounces+gcvmd-monotone-devel=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Wed Sep 13 23:04:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvmd-monotone-devel@m.gmane.org Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNbuC-0006e6-9E for gcvmd-monotone-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:04:24 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNbuB-0002yY-VT for gcvmd-monotone-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:04:23 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNbu7-0002xc-Qm for monotone-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:04:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNbu5-0002xC-Db for monotone-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:04:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNbu5-0002x7-7N for monotone-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:04:17 -0400 Received: from [213.133.111.57] (helo=bugaboo.mu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1GNbvs-0000T7-HJ for monotone-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:06:08 -0400 Received: from [192.168.77.23] (p54BD9EF0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [::ffff:84.189.158.240]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 markus@bluegap.ch) by bugaboo.mu with esmtp; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:04:14 +0200 id 008A9968.4508724E.000040F9 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060812) To: Martin Langhoff In-Reply-To: <46a038f90609131341se42b2dcne73c017cf757d13a@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: monotone-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: developer discussion for monotone List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: monotone-devel-bounces+gcvmd-monotone-devel=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Errors-To: monotone-devel-bounces+gcvmd-monotone-devel=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 9/14/06, Jon Smirl wrote: >> Let's copy the git list too and maybe we can come up with one importer >> for everyone. > > It's a really good idea. cvsps has been for a while a (limited, buggy) > attempt at that. One thing that bothers me in the cvs2svn algorithm is > that is not stable in its decisions about where the branching point is > -- run the import twice at different times and it may tell you that > the branching point has moved. Huh? Really? Why is that? I don't see reasons for such a thing happening when studying the algorithm. For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely on timestamps does not have that problem. Regards Markus