From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:40:52 GMT Subject: Re: import determinism Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20101109134337.GA19430@nibiru.local> 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 wrote: > * Andreas Schwab 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 > -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff