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

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

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>  >  > Ping Yin wrote:
>  >  >  > 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.
>  >  >
>  >  >  cvs2svn/cvs2git itself can't work with remote repositories.  It would be
>  >  >  enough if you could just get a copy of the repository; obviously you
>  >  >  don't need to use the original.
>  >  >
>  >  >  If you can't get a copy of the CVS repository directly, you might be
>  >  >  able to recreate it indirectly via information read over the CVS
>  >  >  protocol using a tool like CVSsuck [1,2].  I have no experience with
>  >  >  CVSsuck, so if you try it out, please let us know whether you were
>  >  >  successful.
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  THX. If i try out cvssuck, i will let you know.
>  >
>
>  Great, i succeed. And the result is exactly what i want!
>

Not exactly, for my another conversion.

$ git log --pretty=online  --name-status x64_UI_071204
724eb47 \
This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'x64_UI_071204'.
9362987 add support of writing cookies of 'fromid';
M       logqueue.c
M       ui.c
M       ui.h

Should we avoid recording the commit 724eb47 since it is the same with
commit 9362987 (no content change)？

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Ping Yin