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Re: [PATCH] cvsps/cvsimport: fix branch point calculation and broken branch imports

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Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 27, 2008, 05:06 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>  > The place where the fixup branch logic needs to be is in git-cvsimport,
>  > not in cvsps.  Better yet, get rid of git-cvsimport and replace it with
>  > cvs2git if it works better.
>
>  cvs2git hopefully gives a more accurate conversion of a CVS repository
>  -- it handles all of the cases described above, plus many more [1] --
>  but it is much slower and can't work incrementally.  So there is
>  definitely still demand for something like git-cvsimport.
>

These days i tried to convert the cvs repository into git. I really want the conversion to be as accurate as possible. However, the cvs repository has been tagged in a very bad style which makes git-cvsimport or cvsps not work well.

cvs2git sounds to be the right tool i should try. Unfortualely, i can't touch the cvs repository directly. So is it possible to use cvs2git in the remote host instead of the host of the cvs repository just as git-cvsimport does? Yes, i know it can't now. I just wonder whether it is possible to implement.

I choose to reply to this thread instead of opening a new one because i think this reply of Michael has told much shortcommings of git-cvsimport or cvsps but had got no replies yet.

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Ping Yin
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Message 12 of 18 in “cvsps/cvsimport: fix branch point calculation and broken branch imports”
  1. cvsps/cvsimport: fix branch point calculation and broken branch importsDavid Mansfield, Apr 2, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2008
  3. David MansfieldApr 3, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2008
  5. David MansfieldApr 3, 2008
  6. Steffen ProhaskaApr 3, 2008
  7. David MansfieldApr 3, 2008
  8. Michael HaggertyApr 4, 2008
  9. David MansfieldApr 7, 2008
  10. Jean-François VeilletteApr 7, 2008
  11. Michael HaggertyApr 9, 2008
  12. Ping YinApr 27, 2008
  13. Michael HaggertyApr 27, 2008
  14. Ping YinApr 27, 2008
  15. Ping YinApr 27, 2008
  16. Ping YinApr 27, 2008
  17. Ping YinApr 27, 2008
  18. Ping YinApr 27, 2008

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