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Re: git-cvsimport doesn't quite work, wrt branches

From
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Jun 13, 2006, 18:46 UTC
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<1150224411.20536.79.camel@neko.keithp.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0606131008470.5498@g5.osdl.org>
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, it's a cvsps problem. 
> 
> Big surprise.
Yeah, we've got
	git-cvsimport
	cvsps
	cvs rlog
	,v files

cvs rlog is designed to 'represent' the history of the repository to users. Cvsps was built as a software analysis tool, and is used by putative software engineering researchers. Basing a supposedly lossless repository conversion system on this pair seems foolish to me, notwithstanding the heroic efforts to make it work.

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keith.packard@intel.com
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