From: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: fix initial checkout
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:29:07 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D9B8C3.7000808@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e29894ca0803131604qa61adfbo22ff75d076feb899@mail.gmail.com>
Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Yeah, it failed in the middle of a ~4h import, I did not restart it.
there are no guarantees then of correctness (there seldom are, but a
failed import can leave your repo in a number of odd states...).
I'd suggest parsecvs for the initial import of a messy repo. You can
continue to do incrementas with cvsimport after the initial import.
cheers,
m
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 19:09 [PATCH] git-cvsimport: fix initial checkout Marc-Andre Lureau
2008-03-13 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-13 22:18 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-03-13 23:04 ` Marc-André Lureau
2008-03-13 23:07 ` Marc-André Lureau
2008-03-13 23:29 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2008-03-13 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-13 23:27 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-03-13 23:22 ` Marc-André Lureau
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