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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cvsimport bug on branches [was: conversion to git]
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On 9/22/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> The big advantage of git-cvsimport is that it can do incremental imports,

Indeed. And it can take over incrementals on a GIT repo initially
imported by parsecvs or cvs2git. That's the recommended practice for
tracking non-trivial CVS repos -- IOWs "that's what I do" ;-)

cheers,


m