Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport-script: handling of tags

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2005, 22:59 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f9050906155962d33869@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <431E0B25.5000104@zytor.com>

On 9/7/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

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> Martin Langhoff wrote:
> >
> > Tell me more about how you are trying the 'recognize merge'. It is a
> > pretty unsophisticated thing, as it trusts the commit message in the
> > first place. But when it works, it works.
> >
> 
> Perhaps it would be good to know what it expects in the commit message?

>From the source, with line numbers:

80 our @mergerx = (); 81 if ($opt_m) { 82 @mergerx = ( qr/\W(?:from|of|merge|merging|merged) (\w+)/i ); 83 } 84 if ($opt_M) { 85 push (@mergerx, qr/$opt_M/); 86 }

If your commit messages have a particular format, feed -M a regex that captures the branchname/tagname in $1.

> My style has always be to use tags for merges; tag the origin branch as
> well as before and after on the receiving branch.

Do you move the tags with cvs tag -F? If that's the case, the data you need to merge is lost... otherwise, you could hack an alternative merge detection based on your tagnames.

cheers,

martin