From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:59:41 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910708021659y6e9bb7ddk58817b4de3df26a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <46AFCF3E.5010805@alum.mit.edu> <65F1862F-4DF2-4A52-9FD5-20802AEACDAB@zib.de> <46B2132D.7090304@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Steffen Prohaska" , git@vger.kernel.org, users@cvs2svn.tigris.org To: "Michael Haggerty" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 01:59:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGka1-0005zN-Ko for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:59:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757624AbXHBX7n (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:59:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756856AbXHBX7n (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:59:43 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:33154 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757319AbXHBX7m (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:59:42 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so538035rvb for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:59:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NzxtlYz26MWNhJ7uuZlAj0krB3I4nfm4h2xZrZuA40D15DrcDtMVrAArR9obqU/249RmRKALo1LO3nl+8cBwKp5+Sd9ccpD7+viWET0fSXF/6n29Tqgksa1iwGv4Hi8jDj2pRXWKFqm2mNZv1wy7CReG0jLOTA05nPxVC1x2Xos= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=odFgohpdQKYNfEljZq2YSeVLOkNRsGOmDgVMUPwi1rV4r5FP8GdSf/ixdELvPCmkn1ZbYowYkS8wakGsJy4DDqo99VlcHMcWC09Hqh6mFkZkDDykOGNyk6JxGh2cVF3Cp7JNTyEO+83IYf4tIH2AFRC3FeEWkC2r/h0xMZpmfVw= Received: by 10.115.75.1 with SMTP id c1mr2366482wal.1186099181748; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.195.11 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:59:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46B2132D.7090304@alum.mit.edu> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 8/2/07, Michael Haggerty 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