From: Lars Noschinski Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:04:33 GMT Subject: Re: git cvsimport and deleted files Message-ID: <20080720180432.GA30285@lars.home.noschinski.de> In-Reply-To: * Johannes Schindelin [08-07-20 14:49]: >> I just tried importing the CVS repository for a long-running project >> (ppp) into git using git cvsimport. It looks like git cvsimport >> doesn't notice when files have been deleted, so files that used to be >> present and were subsequently deleted are present in the git tree for >> the most recent commit. > >I never had that problem. See >http://repo.or.cz/w/libvncserver.git?a=commit;h=8dead0759febaa7176507e1bde13ebd9d2a30720 >for a commit that was imported with cvsimport. > >So your issue must lie somewhere else. I encountered such an issue some time ago in incremental mode, when another person did some cvs branch stuff. The error persisted even as I did a clean checkout, but disappeared, after I deleted all the cvsps cache files. I failed to report the error, because I had not much time for debugging at that time and I would not have been able to publish the repository. That's when I switched to fromcvs, which seems to work reliably so far (and much faster), but requires a local repository.