Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch
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> On 1/26/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
>> how do you expect this to ever work? your tag is not a time stable one.
> I agree on that, but you _can_ try a range of importers. I think you
> should give Keith Packard's parsecvs a try. It is memory-bound and
> won't do incremental imports but it manages to import some repos
> cvsimport can't do directly.
whichever importer you try, it *will* fail to create pure tags equivalent to the CVS tag. it is not possible. of course you can do trickery and create branches to simulate crooked tags.
> The other option is to use cvs2svn, which is the most conservative and
> careful importer around, and most likely to be able to deal with your
> insane tags. And then git-svnimport right after ;-)
yes, cvs2svn is quite top notch regarding the brokenness in repos it tolerates. however, going from svn to git is equally complicated again, as you can't nicely convert svn's copy-to-branch if it again copies files from different revisions. you just converted the problem to svn, but you didn't make it go away.
cheers
simon
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Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>