From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:15:21 GMT Subject: Re: cvs import Message-ID: <20060913211521.GA3336@ugly.local> In-Reply-To: <4508724D.2050701@bluegap.ch> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:04:13PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: > >One thing that bothers me in the cvs2svn algorithm is > >that is not stable in its decisions about where the branching point is > >-- run the import twice at different times and it may tell you that > >the branching point has moved. > > Huh? Really? Why is that? I don't see reasons for such a thing happening > when studying the algorithm. > that's certainly due to some hash being iterated. python intentionally randomizes this to make wrong assumptions obvious. there is actually a patch pending to improve the branch source selection drastically. maybe this is affected as well. > For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely > on timestamps does not have that problem. > i think that's unrelated. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.