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Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 00:29 UTC
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On 11/21/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I gather this means that the cvs2svn track hasn't been as productive
> > as expected. Any remaining/unsolvable issues with it? I have been
> > chronically busy on my e-learning projects, but don't discard coming
> > back to this when I have some time.
>
> Look in this thread
> [Fwd: Re: What's in git.git]
>
> There is a message in there that explains a problem that the cvs2svn
> people aren't going to fix and it kills git.

I see - thanks for the pointer. Sorry to hear others in the Moz project weren't so keen on hearing about alternatives to SVN. Long term only something like GIT seems viable for such a large project (in terms of community, branches/subprojects and codebase).

Two remaining questions
 - Where can I get your latest code? :-)
 - I gather the moz cvs repo has some cases that require getting the
symbol resolution right. Could this be performed as an extra pass /
task?

Eventually the Moz crowd will outgrow SVN - perhaps we should be parsing the SVN dump format instead ;-)

cheers,
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  1. Jon SmirlNov 20, 2006
  2. Martin LanghoffNov 20, 2006
  3. Jon SmirlNov 20, 2006
  4. Martin LanghoffNov 21, 2006
  5. Carl WorthNov 21, 2006
  6. Jon SmirlNov 21, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  8. lamikrNov 21, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  10. Robin RosenbergNov 23, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceNov 25, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  13. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
  15. Johannes SixtNov 23, 2006
  16. Martin LanghoffNov 21, 2006
  17. Jon SmirlNov 21, 2006
  18. Marko MacekNov 26, 2006
  19. Jon SmirlNov 26, 2006
  20. Marko MacekNov 26, 2006
  21. Jon SmirlNov 26, 2006
  22. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  24. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  25. Markus SchiltknechtNov 27, 2006
  26. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  27. Markus SchiltknechtNov 28, 2006
  28. Michael HaggertyNov 30, 2006
  29. Daniel JacobowitzNov 30, 2006
  30. Jon SmirlNov 27, 2006

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