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From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport bug with dates
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:12:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51419b2c0711160612r1a80bd5o686040f945e8d9c3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr6iq207f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Nov 15, 2007 11:06 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> When you use "branch@{date}" notation, you are not asking a
> question on the project history, but a question on the local
> view from _your_ repository on that project.

Interesting; that makes sense from a merge or pull viewpoint, but
wouldn't it make more sense to have cvsimport ensure the commits are
treated as though they actually existed in master as of the date
specified in CVS?

Elijah

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-16 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-16  4:59 git-cvsimport bug with dates Elijah Newren
2007-11-16  6:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-16 14:12   ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2007-11-17 10:12     ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-17 15:39       ` Elijah Newren
2007-11-17 21:36         ` Jan Hudec

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