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Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 2, 2006, 00:59 UTC
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On 6/1/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > I've been working on importing the Mozilla CVS into git for the last
> > few days. I've fixed up parsecvs so that it can parse the entire
> > repository without errors. Now I'm running into problems because there
> > are over 300 branches.
> >
> > I just run into a problem with git show-branch. Mozilla CVS has a lot
> > more than 29 refs, is this something that can be expanded?
>
> Hmm.. Any reason you care about "show-branch --all" in particular?
>
> The algorithm used for show-branch really doesn't scale well, it needs one
> bit per commit per branch, and I didn't realize anybody could ever really
> care.

I was trying to use it to figure out what was wrong with the branch processing in parsecvs. It doesn't have to be fixed. show-branch --all fails with same 29 tag limit.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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  1. Jon SmirlJun 1, 2006
  2. Keith PackardJun 1, 2006
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  5. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceJun 2, 2006
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  12. Pavel RoskinJun 2, 2006
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  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 2, 2006
  15. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
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  18. Jon SmirlJun 7, 2006
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  39. Keith PackardJun 7, 2006
  40. Jon SmirlJun 7, 2006
  41. Linus TorvaldsJun 1, 2006
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