Re: import determinism

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date: Nov 9, 2010, 13:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20101109134337.GA19430@nibiru.local>
In-Reply-To: <m2d3qgu50c.fsf@igel.home>

* Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

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> > For cvsimport, it is not deterministic. Given cvs'
> > ambiguous/buggy/inconsistent internal semantics around some
> > operations, cvsps makes educated guesses about what happened.
> >
> > Later commits can affect those educated guesses.
> 
> The OP was assuming an unchanging repository.

My assumption is:

* the original cvs repo will have later additions
  (so I'm incrementally importing)
* no commints (besides cvsimport) in the git mirror, but others
  for off from there
* the mirror could get lost in an desaster (no separate backup)
  and should be recreated afresh in that case.

The point behind this is: I'm running a growing number of cvs2git mirrors and dont want to do full backups of them.

cu

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