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Re: Change in cvsps maintainership, abd a --fast-export option

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Dec 21, 2012, 10:44 UTC
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>:
> In 2009 I added tests demonstrating some of the erroneous behavior of
> git-cvsimport.  The failing tests in t9601-t9603 are concrete examples
> of the problems mentioned in the manpage.

Thanks, that will be extremely useful. One of the things I'm putting effort into is building a good test suite for the tool; I may well be able to adapt your tests directly.

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> If you haven't yet seen it, there is a writeup of the algorithm used by
> cvs2git to infer the history of a CVS repository [1].  If your goal is
> to make cvsps more robust, you might want to consider the ideas
> described there.

I shall do so. Their design ideas may well be interesting, even though I don't trust their code. I've seem cvs2svn drop far too many weird artifacts and just plain broken commits in the back history of Subversion repositories. I don't know if this is due to design problems, implementation bugs, or both.

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