Re: [PATCH] cvsps/cvsimport: fix branch point calculation and broken branch imports

["Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>  > The place where the fixup branch logic needs to be is in git-cvsimport,
>  > not in cvsps.  Better yet, get rid of git-cvsimport and replace it with
>  > cvs2git if it works better.
>
>  cvs2git hopefully gives a more accurate conversion of a CVS repository
>  -- it handles all of the cases described above, plus many more [1] --
>  but it is much slower and can't work incrementally.  So there is
>  definitely still demand for something like git-cvsimport.
>

These days i tried to convert the cvs repository into git. I really
want the conversion to be as accurate as possible. However, the cvs
repository has been tagged in a very bad style which makes
git-cvsimport or cvsps not work well.

cvs2git sounds to be the right tool i should try. Unfortualely, i
can't touch the cvs repository directly. So is it possible to use
cvs2git in the remote host instead of the host of the cvs repository
just as git-cvsimport does? Yes, i know it can't now. I just wonder
whether it is possible to implement.

I choose to reply to this thread instead of opening a new one because
i think this reply of Michael has told much shortcommings of
git-cvsimport or cvsps but had got no replies yet.

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Ping Yin