Re: Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Aug 15, 2005, 08:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20050815080931.64F0D352633@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508141737270.3553@g5.osdl.org>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508141737270.3553@g5.osdl.org> you wrote:

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> One thing that "git cvsimport" does not know to do is to show when a
> branch was merged back into the HEAD. That would be a very interesting
> thing to see, but I don't think there's any way to get that information
> out of CVS (so you'd have to basically make an educated guess by looking
> at the changes).
> 
> So in a cvsimport, you'll never see a merge back to the head, even if one 
> technically took place.

I asked this question before without receiving any reply:

Assume I know exactly where the merge back happenend - is there any way to tell git about it, so I don't see all these dangling heads any more?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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