From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Steffen Prohaska" <prohaska@zib.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, users@cvs2svn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:59:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910708021659y6e9bb7ddk58817b4de3df26a0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B2132D.7090304@alum.mit.edu>
On 8/2/07, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Branches with names like "unlabeled-1.1.1" come from CVS branches for
> which the revisions are still contained in the RCS files but for which
> the branch name has been deleted. These wreak havoc on cvs2svn's
> attempt to find simple branch sources and cause a proliferation of
> basically useless branches. The main problem is that cvs2svn does not
> attempt to figure out that "unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the
> same as "unlabeled-1.2.6" in another etc.
I seem to recall discussing an algorithm to fix this on the cvs2svn
mailing list. There was a somewhat simple way to correlate the
"unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the same as "unlabeled-1.2.6"
problem.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 0:09 cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation Michael Haggerty
2007-08-01 0:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-01 22:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-02 16:58 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 23:44 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-02 8:49 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 17:23 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 19:22 ` Marko Macek
2007-08-02 23:59 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2007-08-05 7:58 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2007-08-02 17:35 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-02 19:13 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 19:29 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-02 20:21 ` Robin Rosenberg
[not found] ` <200708022221.13129.robin.rosenberg.lists-RgPrefM1rjDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-02 20:31 ` Lübbe Onken
2007-08-02 20:32 ` Lübbe Onken
2007-08-02 20:33 ` Lübbe Onken
2007-08-02 22:02 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 22:50 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-02 23:50 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 8:40 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-04 8:28 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 3:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-02 23:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-02 23:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 3:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-02 23:55 ` Jon Smirl
[not found] ` <8b65902a0708010438s24d16109k601b52c04cf9c066@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-02 15:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 23:08 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-08-03 4:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-03 6:48 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 7:10 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 8:36 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 14:35 ` Patwardhan, Rajesh
2007-08-03 15:41 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-03 16:42 ` Patwardhan, Rajesh
2007-08-03 18:58 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 20:16 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-03 20:27 ` Jon Smirl
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