From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:20:12 GMT Subject: Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch Message-ID: <45B99D9C.40908@fs.ei.tum.de> In-Reply-To: <46a038f90701251806k719dd35p7b13fe049b9cf25c@mail.gmail.com> Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 1/26/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert 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 -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \