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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fast-import and unique objects.
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:45:56 -0400
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On 8/7/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > How about sending out a stream of add/change/delete operations
> > interspersed with commits? That would let fast-import track the tree
> > and only generate tree nodes when they change.
>
> The problem with CVS, which cvsps (CVS PatchSet) tries to address is that
> changes are to a file, and reconstructing which changes go together to make
> _one_ commit...

The cvs2svn code is also gathering CVS commits into change sets. The
advantage of the cvs2svn code is that it is written by some of the
original CVS developers. Those developers are familiar with the 1,000
different ways to break a CVS repository and cvs2svn tries to deal
with the breakage.

cvsps works for some repositories but it fails on the Mozilla one.
There is something about branches in the Mozilla repository that
confuses it. cvs2svn handles the Mozilla repository correctly as far
as I can tell.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com