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Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: fix initial checkout

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MLMartin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Date
Mar 13, 2008, 23:29 UTC
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Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Yeah, it failed in the middle of a ~4h import, I did not restart it.

there are no guarantees then of correctness (there seldom are, but a failed import can leave your repo in a number of odd states...).

I'd suggest parsecvs for the initial import of a messy repo. You can continue to do incrementas with cvsimport after the initial import.

cheers,
m
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