From: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:04:13 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs import
Message-ID: <4508724D.2050701@bluegap.ch>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90609131341se42b2dcne73c017cf757d13a@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let's copy the git list too and maybe we can come up with one importer
>> for everyone.
> 
> It's a really good idea. cvsps has been for a while a (limited, buggy)
> attempt at that. One thing that bothers me in the cvs2svn algorithm is
> that is not stable in its decisions about where the branching point is
> -- run the import twice at different times and it may tell you that
> the branching point has moved.

Huh? Really? Why is that? I don't see reasons for such a thing happening 
when studying the algorithm.

For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely 
on timestamps does not have that problem.

Regards

Markus