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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "weigelt@metux.de" <weigelt@metux.de>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: import determinism
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:40:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=y_DKRRU43ro3WDz2rSDGL9xASfsinoj8Ya9PT@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101109134337.GA19430@nibiru.local>

Every full clone is a good backup. If nobody is doing a full clone...
the do back them up. That's my recommendation.


M

On Tuesday, November 9, 2010, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
>> > For cvsimport, it is not deterministic. Given cvs'
>> > ambiguous/buggy/inconsistent internal semantics around some
>> > operations, cvsps makes educated guesses about what happened.
>> >
>> > Later commits can affect those educated guesses.
>>
>> The OP was assuming an unchanging repository.
>
> My assumption is:
>
> * the original cvs repo will have later additions
>   (so I'm incrementally importing)
> * no commints (besides cvsimport) in the git mirror, but others
>   for off from there
> * the mirror could get lost in an desaster (no separate backup)
>   and should be recreated afresh in that case.
>
>
> The point behind this is: I'm running a growing number of cvs2git
> mirrors and dont want to do full backups of them.
>
>
> cu
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-07 20:25 import determinism Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-07 20:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-11-07 21:01   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-07 21:56     ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-07 22:20     ` Martin Langhoff
2010-11-07 22:45       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-09 13:43         ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-10  4:40           ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2010-11-10 16:18             ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-10 21:25               ` Martin Langhoff
2010-11-10 22:04                 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-11  4:28           ` Michael Haggerty
2010-11-11 13:09             ` Enrico Weigelt

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