From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:17:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Git CVS Import Questions
Message-ID: <20100730201706.GC2448@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_d_wKxyJDMbjz4vFacr6GNYzE_aUGi2vbXW3V@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Samir,

Samir Faci wrote:

> mkdir bar; git cvsimport -v Foo/Bar   which checks out the history of
> module Bar into the current directory (in this case bar)
> 
> now... if I do this again in another directory
> 
> mkdir bar2; git cvsimport -v Foo/Bar  which repeats the same process
> the hashes don't match up.

Maybe the dates are different?  I would suggest comparing the result of
“git fast-export HEAD” from each.

> Now, correct me if I'm wrong.. but I thought the hashes were generated
> based on the content of the diff.

Close, but not quite.  This might help: http://progit.org/book/ch9-2.html

Have fun,
Jonathan