From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:58:00 GMT Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation Message-ID: <20070805075800.GA4256@ugly.local> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708021659y6e9bb7ddk58817b4de3df26a0@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:59:41PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > I seem to recall discussing an algorithm to fix this on the cvs2svn > mailing list. There was a somewhat simple way to correlate the > "unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the same as "unlabeled-1.2.6" > problem. > yes, name them after the first symbol that appears on them. like unlabeled-1.2.4 being named __KDE_3_5_RELEASE because of such tag (without the underscores, obviously) appearing on it. the naive per-file implementation doesn't get you that far, though. again, one'd have to collect data from all files first, correlate it and make a "majority vote". very similar to your favorite symbol source problem. ;) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.