From: Jon Smirl Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:59:17 GMT Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Message-ID: <9e4733910606011759t7c828a50gc4a6b45d92d2b344@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/1/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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