Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <43D2B97E-6AC5-4A7E-AA86-DDFF4992A284@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <46B25FC3.6000205@fs.ei.tum.de>

On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>>> yah, that pretty much tells me it is shawn's bug :)  but without  
>>> more details, it is very hard to diagnose.
>> I tried again. Interestingly now togit works but tohg still fails.
>> togit starts with reporting
>> fatal: Not a valid object name
>
> that's fine.

Looks a bit scary. Could you hide the message from the user if it's fine.

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>> as the first line. But besides that it seems to work fine. What
>> concerns me a bit is that the last line togit reports is
>> committing set 18100/18173
>> I'd expect it should report 18173/18173.
>
> that's fine as well.  You only saw multiples of 100, but you didn't  
> consider it would skip the itermediate ones, right? :)

I don't care about the intermediates, but only about the last one. I'd expect that a successful import would report as the last line 18173/18173. If the first number is smaller than the second, this indicates to me that there's something left to do.

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>> BTW, togit creates much more complex branching patterns than cvs2svn
>> does. The attached file branching.png displays a small view of a
>> branching pattern that extends downwards over a couple of screens.
>> I checked the cvs2svn history again. It doesn't contain anything
>> of similar complexity.
>
> haha yea, there is still some issue with duplicate branch names and  
> the branchpoint.  if it doesn't get the branch right, it will  
> always "pull" files from the parent branch.
>
> did you do some manual RCS file copying or manual branch name  
> changing of individual files?  this could be the reason.  I still  
> have to find a simple repo to reproduce this.

Maybe, the repo is 8 years old. It started before I joined the development.

	Steffen