From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:41:29 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs import
Message-ID: <46a038f90609131341se42b2dcne73c017cf757d13a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609131201q7f583029r72dac66cd0dd098f@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/14/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's copy the git list too and maybe we can come up with one importer
> for everyone.

It's a really good idea. cvsps has been for a while a (limited, buggy)
attempt at that. One thing that bothers me in the cvs2svn algorithm is
that is not stable in its decisions about where the branching point is
-- run the import twice at different times and it may tell you that
the branching point has moved.

This is problematic for incremental imports. If we fudged that "it's
around *here*" we better remember we said that and not go changing our
story. Git is too smart for that ;-)


martin