From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:06:19 +1300 Message-ID: <46a038f90701251806k719dd35p7b13fe049b9cf25c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070125142242.1402.qmail@b4b5deb4d44aa3.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <45B8C032.7020004@fs.ei.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 26 03:06:26 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 1HAGTw-00055e-S1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:06:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030703AbXAZCGW (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:06:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030704AbXAZCGW (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:06:22 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:39999 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030703AbXAZCGV (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:06:21 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1000132nfa for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:06:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j1b8EJztzBT21q0eQAti44QjnmL2x0TdcNLr38Rv4erZEq+a6jzxigbLfnA8kgu1B5A+v8wMV/xDo9st56B8hXOZvr1+3DGk32J7g21YKtoK1JkBEgXHvsQZ4dQrIU3CoWMBz03cwevq4pPuCpJ62gGoORSwuA7wnArrDhT0pA4= Received: by 10.49.54.3 with SMTP id g3mr2657593nfk.1169777179924; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:06:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.215.2 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:06:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45B8C032.7020004@fs.ei.tum.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1/26/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > how do you expect this to ever work? your tag is not a time stable one. I agree on that, but you _can_ try a range of importers. I think you should give Keith Packard's parsecvs a try. It is memory-bound and won't do incremental imports but it manages to import some repos cvsimport can't do directly. The other option is to use cvs2svn, which is the most conservative and careful importer around, and most likely to be able to deal with your insane tags. And then git-svnimport right after ;-) cheers m