From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:16:01 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs import
Message-ID: <46a038f90609131416s1a53b53xd12c3661140fec7a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4508724D.2050701@bluegap.ch>

On 9/14/06, Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Huh? Really? Why is that? I don't see reasons for such a thing happening
> when studying the algorithm.
>
> For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely
> on timestamps does not have that problem.

IIRC, it places branch tags as late as possible. I haven't looked at
it in detail, but an import immediately after the first commit against
the branch may yield a different branchpoint from the same import done
a bit later.

cheers,


martin