From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: cvs import Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:41:29 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f90609131341se42b2dcne73c017cf757d13a@mail.gmail.com> References: <45084400.1090906@bluegap.ch> <9e4733910609131201q7f583029r72dac66cd0dd098f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Markus Schiltknecht" , "Git Mailing List" , monotone-devel@nongnu.org, dev@cvs2svn.tigris.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 13 22:42:05 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 1GNbY6-0002Hy-Ge for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:41:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751179AbWIMUlc (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751180AbWIMUlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:31 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:10018 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751179AbWIMUla (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:30 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1811202nfa for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:41:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bgnuCO5u1QukEwbWULPYqvEz19VvoAHlmkPO/pw5LPmXg4aPlVLPJ7NPBJHK+sWSDr+rBuwGmwDUDaTDHCHd7bXmQKtm7VoWsUztU54DD68L7WmJNJYuTMl7lr7Q1jkrqFOXsrQdWOaoL4QzdEbJ3SkJNq3ZvEITvwMQ9OlV0gc= Received: by 10.49.75.2 with SMTP id c2mr11339158nfl; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.6.16 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:41:29 -0700 (PDT) To: "Jon Smirl" In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609131201q7f583029r72dac66cd0dd098f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. This is problematic for incremental imports. If we fudged that "it's around *here*" we better remember we said that and not go changing our story. Git is too smart for that ;-) martin