Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git

From: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>
Date: Jul 20, 2007, 08:45 UTC
Message-ID: <46A0763E.1070402@bluegap.ch>
In-Reply-To: <469FB80A.8000001@fs.ei.tum.de>

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> I do not think Eric is right here.  You will allways lose information 
> when converting CVS to svn, and if it is just the uncertainty, the 
> non-atomicity.  This is also information (hidden one, though).

Full ACK.

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> Yes.  I've already done what people want, it is not called cvs2xxx, but 
> fromcvs [1].  I don't think it is necessary to define an output format.  
> Of course, that's possible, but limiting yourself to a file format means 
> you're losing flexibility, which is needed for efficient, correct and 
> fast repository conversion.

Hm.. interesting. I'll have a close look.

Regards

Markus