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Re: git cvsimport and deleted files

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LNLars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>
Date
Jul 20, 2008, 18:05 UTC
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* Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [08-07-20 14:49]:
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>>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.

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  1. Paul MackerrasJul 20, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 20, 2008
  3. Lars NoschinskiJul 20, 2008
  4. Lars NoschinskiJul 20, 2008

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