Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch
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> Hi, I struggle with importing a CVS repository into git to switch over
> development. In some branches there're differences in the source code
> after importing into git. We tracked this down to tags and branches
> that where tagged partially in CVS, first a tag was set on one
> subdirectory tree (sources), later on another subdirectory tree (docs).
> This confuses cvsimport or cvsps, the tag in git after import doesn't
> match the tag in CVS.
how do you expect this to ever work? your tag is not a time stable one. the tag spans multiple change sets. best forget the whole tag thing, seriously. my cvs converter [1] already has a hard time reproducing branches correctly. doing this with tags is impossible. svn can do this because they don't have tags, so it is a kind of fake. of course you could do this in git as well by actually creating a branch for a tag, but it is really messy. just don't do that.
good luck
simon
[1]: <http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs>, not 100% yet, but probably the best you can get at the moment. i'm a perfectionist, so i might never call it "done".
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