From: Ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:47:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9410348686.20130424084718@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130423210657.GA32382@thyrsus.com>
ESR> Ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>:
>> For new branches the 'from' command can refer the common ancestor in
>> an existing branch. For example:
>>
>> /----------E thebranch
>> /
>> A---B---C---D master
>>
>> Commit E is newer than D; we already imported D; thebranch is new.
>> Instead of:
>> from refs/heads/thebranch^0
>> refer the parent as:
>> from refs/heads/master^2
ESR> Understood. Do you actually need this much generality in practice,
ESR> or is it a theoretical case?
Such cases occur quite often.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-24 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-14 8:18 cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc Ilya Basin
2013-04-14 8:48 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-14 9:47 ` John Keeping
2013-04-14 11:33 ` State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-15 5:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-15 17:58 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-15 20:43 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-04-18 9:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-19 5:29 ` Does git fast-import support deltas? Ilya Basin
2013-04-19 5:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-19 6:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-20 10:22 ` Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 17:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-23 18:30 ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 21:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-24 4:47 ` Ilya Basin [this message]
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