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Re: git-cvsimport BUG: some commits are completely out of phase (but cvsps sees them all right)

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 3, 2008, 19:08 UTC
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<20081103190853.GM15463@spearce.org>
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Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello <samuellucas@datacom.ind.br> wrote:
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> Michael Haggerty wrote:
> > Francis Galiegue wrote:
> >> The plan would be to convert all modules in one go, with no one committing in 
> >> the meantime, so that's not a problem.
> > 
> > Then you should definitely try cvs2svn/cvs2git [1].  cvsps-based
> > conversion tools all have known and unavoidable problems due to the
> > limitations of cvsps.
> 
> Does cvs2git plans to support incremental importing?

No, it doesn't, and likely never will. Computing the change sets from CVS is ugly and more-or-less requires that you do it all in one pass.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 6 of 7 in “git-cvsimport BUG: some commits are completely out of phase (but cvsps sees them all right)”
  1. Francis GaliegueNov 2, 2008
  2. Tomi PakarinenNov 2, 2008
  3. Francis GaliegueNov 2, 2008
  4. Michael HaggertyNov 3, 2008
  5. Samuel Lucas Vaz de MelloNov 3, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceNov 3, 2008
  7. Michael HaggertyNov 3, 2008

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