From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:48:28 GMT Subject: Re: Switching heads and head vs branch after CVS import Message-ID: <46a038f90508150248159e070e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 8/15/05, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Umm, actually, no, cvsimport doesn't do merges. Dunno where Martin got his > from, but it wasn't me. ;-) Just wishful thinking, and a viewing things on a remote box over a slow x11-over-ssh connection. When I think about it, it doesn't seem possible either, so I better stop dreaming. > > Sven, Matthias, opinions? I've never used CVS keyword expansion, and > > always felt it was pointless, but hey.. > > I have intentionally kept keyword expansion on when I wrote the code, > because matching up the files from CVS with files gathered from tarballs, > Debian repositories, and what-not, becomes a whole lot easier that way. Makes sense in that context. On the other hand, if you are you're migrating a project from cvs to git, getting rid of the noise is good. And the resulting git repo will actually let you do trivial merges of old commits after you've switched -- otherwise every file-level merge will conflict, as it does in cvs when you don't use -kk. cheers, martin