From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:59:17 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910606011759t7c828a50gc4a6b45d92d2b344@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 02 03:00:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fly0Y-0001gZ-Fw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:59:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751038AbWFBA7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:59:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbWFBA7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:59:19 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.200]:2907 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751038AbWFBA7S (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:59:18 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s18so417445nze for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:59:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=f/cI6JlVDZOPtABnu2MfhCcGgV57ZnPPwDt0gQkiBItRWdVlkg8HRJq4ydQLy6O/issmiC9fB5Tjg7kyenpYDgrIS6x9Ljf/eUeRyBV4UYiZkmUhBXcuFhqmLqjFTTXo3BNpyevIuOPHwyxtwympgt/2R4SpfPNCM1C/YsZQHaQ= Received: by 10.36.220.73 with SMTP id s73mr1683828nzg; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.39.3 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:59:17 -0700 (PDT) To: "Linus Torvalds" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/1/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > I've been working on importing the Mozilla CVS into git for the last > > few days. I've fixed up parsecvs so that it can parse the entire > > repository without errors. Now I'm running into problems because there > > are over 300 branches. > > > > I just run into a problem with git show-branch. Mozilla CVS has a lot > > more than 29 refs, is this something that can be expanded? > > Hmm.. Any reason you care about "show-branch --all" in particular? > > The algorithm used for show-branch really doesn't scale well, it needs one > bit per commit per branch, and I didn't realize anybody could ever really > care. I was trying to use it to figure out what was wrong with the branch processing in parsecvs. It doesn't have to be fixed. show-branch --all fails with same 29 tag limit. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com