From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:59:41 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation
Message-ID: <9e4733910708021659y6e9bb7ddk58817b4de3df26a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46B2132D.7090304@alum.mit.edu>

On 8/2/07, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Branches with names like "unlabeled-1.1.1" come from CVS branches for
> which the revisions are still contained in the RCS files but for which
> the branch name has been deleted.  These wreak havoc on cvs2svn's
> attempt to find simple branch sources and cause a proliferation of
> basically useless branches.  The main problem is that cvs2svn does not
> attempt to figure out that "unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the
> same as "unlabeled-1.2.6" in another etc.

I seem to recall discussing an algorithm  to fix this on the cvs2svn
mailing list. There was a somewhat simple way to correlate the
"unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the same as "unlabeled-1.2.6"
problem.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com