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Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

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RBRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date
Mar 24, 2006, 12:44 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:39:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> it's "PatchSet 104" (well, for me it is, I have a hacked cvsps, so it 
> might not be that for you), which creates the "gdb-4_18-branch", but it 
> appears that cvsps hasn't actually figured out any "Ancestor branch" for 
> that commit.
> 
> What a crock.
> 
> Anyway, it's clearly a cvsps bug (mentioning a new branch without the 
> _source_ of that branch). Equally clearly, "git cvsimport" is being an ass 
> about then failing so totally on it.
> 
> I'll try to take a look at why cvsps does that.

Last I converted CVS trees to git found that about half of the branches were branching off from the wrong commit of the parent branch. At that time I decieded to just move the branch using a quick script instead of diving into cvsps.

  Ralf
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Message 36 of 43 in “Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils”
  1. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 22, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMar 22, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  5. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 23, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  7. Chris ShoemakerMar 24, 2006
  8. Keith PackardMar 24, 2006
  9. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 24, 2006
  10. Chris ShoemakerMar 25, 2006
  11. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2006
  12. Keith PackardMar 23, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  14. seanMar 23, 2006
  15. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  16. Shawn PearceMar 23, 2006
  17. Ryan AndersonMar 23, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2006
  20. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2006
  21. Mark WoodingMar 24, 2006
  22. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  23. David S. MillerMar 23, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  25. Timo HirvonenMar 23, 2006
  26. seanMar 23, 2006
  27. Ralf BaechleMar 24, 2006
  28. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  29. Carl WorthMar 24, 2006
  30. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  31. Ryan AndersonMar 23, 2006
  32. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2006
  34. Ryan AndersonMar 24, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2006
  36. Ralf BaechleMar 24, 2006
  37. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 24, 2006
  38. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  39. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 25, 2006
  40. Santi BéjarMar 24, 2006
  41. Eric WongMar 25, 2006
  42. contrib/git-svn: stabilize memory usage for big fetchesEric Wong, Mar 26, 2006
  43. James CloosMar 25, 2006

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