Re: parsecvs tool now creates git repositories

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2006, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90604061622s5a7bee4eq6666d9b3796f70f6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1144361968.2303.288.camel@neko.keithp.com>

On 4/7/06, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:51 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> >  - file additions were recorded with one-commit-per-file. I am not
> > sure how rcs is recording these, but hte user does enter a common
> > message at "commit" time. Perhaps the file addition action could be
> > ignored then?
>
> If the log message is identical, and the dates are in-range, parsecvs
> "should" put the adds in the same commit.

parsecvs is committing them with the "added file foo.x" message, not the actual commit message.

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> >  - some tags made on a branch show up in HEAD. This may be due to
> > partial-tree branches, but I am not sure.
>
> Finding branch points is not perfect; it's complicated by bizzarre
> behaviour when adding files and casual CVS changes which make precise
> branch points hard to detect. Can I get at this repository to play with?

I fetch it with something along the lines of...

while ( true ) ; do
     wget -qc http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/moodle-cvsroot.tar.bz2 &&
break
     sleep 5
done

and then import the "moodle" module.

cheers,