From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:58:07 +0200 Message-ID: <46B20D1F.1020308@alum.mit.edu> References: <46AFCF3E.5010805@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 02 18:58:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGe0A-0007cB-FB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:58:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751368AbXHBQ6P (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:58:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751052AbXHBQ6P (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:58:15 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:40391 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbXHBQ6O (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:58:14 -0400 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.178.20] (p5B17FC13.dip.t-dialin.net [91.23.252.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id l72Gw8N5030116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:58:09 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > Michael Haggerty wrote: > Have you contacted Jon Smirl about his unpublished work on cvs2git, > cvs2svn based CVS to Git converter? Yes, I am familiar with Jon Smirl's work, and as soon as he let us know what he was working on, we tried to help. Unfortunately the cooperation was not very fruitful. - While Jon was (unknown to us) working on his git output patch, I was working on a big cvs2svn rewrite to make cvs2svn more robust and easier to hack. By the time he contacted us, his patch did not apply to the cvs2svn code. The refactoring that obsoleted the patch, in fact, was largely to remedy the very same architectural problems that were hampering his work. - In my opinion, Jon misdiagnosed the reason for the "fragmented branch creation" problem that he claimed was preventing a clean conversion to git, and he felt that we were not interested in fixing the problem. In fact, I was working on fixing another problem that I believe was the *real* reason for the fragmented branch creation. This fix is implemented in cvs2svn version 2.0. > Footnotes: > ---------- > [*] If I remember correctly authors of cvs2svn were talking about separating > the code dealing with disentangling CVS repository structure from the part > translating it into Subversion repository (with its quirks), and the part > generating Subversion repository. Yes, this is now done, which was why it was only a couple of days of programming for me to add a git output option. Michael