Re: import determinism
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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
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- Nov 10, 2010, 04:40 UTC
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Every full clone is a good backup. If nobody is doing a full clone... the do back them up. That's my recommendation.
M
On Tuesday, November 9, 2010, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
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> * Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > >> > For cvsimport, it is not deterministic. Given cvs' >> > ambiguous/buggy/inconsistent internal semantics around some >> > operations, cvsps makes educated guesses about what happened. >> > >> > Later commits can affect those educated guesses. >> >> The OP was assuming an unchanging repository. > > My assumption is: > > * the original cvs repo will have later additions > (so I'm incrementally importing) > * no commints (besides cvsimport) in the git mirror, but others > for off from there > * the mirror could get lost in an desaster (no separate backup) > and should be recreated afresh in that case. > > > The point behind this is: I'm running a growing number of cvs2git > mirrors and dont want to do full backups of them. > > > cu > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ > > phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de > mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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