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Re: git cvsimport error

From
Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date
May 24, 2008, 05:23 UTC
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<799406d60805232223q3e2e0cf3k9abfe97ca94d3eff@mail.gmail.com>
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<20080523203025.GU29038@spearce.org>
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> You can run fast-import in incremental behavior.  You just have to
> restart each branch with a "from refs/heads/master^0" or whatever.
> There's some discussion of this in the (rather large) fast-import
> man page.

Thanks I'll take a look at that as I've found that I can pass the -d option to cvsps which _should_ tell it to ignore revisions before a certain date, but even doing this cvsimport tries to import the broken revision prior date!

Cheers
Adam
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