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Re: git-cvsimport gets parents wrong for branches

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 4, 2006, 08:09 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0607041007391.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> It is pretty hard to get that one right in any case, as there are
> cases where the new branch starts from something that is not a commit
> in the parent (from GIT's perspective).

But it should be easy to introduce a faked commit, which just contains those versions (and takes the newest commit touching any of these file versions as branch point).

Ciao, Dscho

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