Re: parsecvs tool now creates git repositories

From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2006, 22:19 UTC
Message-ID: <1144361968.2303.288.camel@neko.keithp.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90604061451m4522e3f3qceae2331751a307c@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:51 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

>  - file additions were recorded with one-commit-per-file. I am not
> sure how rcs is recording these, but hte user does enter a common
> message at "commit" time. Perhaps the file addition action could be
> ignored then?

If the log message is identical, and the dates are in-range, parsecvs "should" put the adds in the same commit.

>  - some tags made on a branch show up in HEAD. This may be due to
> partial-tree branches, but I am not sure.

Finding branch points is not perfect; it's complicated by bizzarre behaviour when adding files and casual CVS changes which make precise branch points hard to detect. Can I get at this repository to play with? I'd like to see if we can't get the branch point detection more accurate.

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