From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:45:55 GMT
Subject: Re: import determinism
Message-ID: <m2d3qgu50c.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikXxM=CfU2dKAY9khi1_tAsGDdUEc8S5AxooGH9@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> The committer info in every commit will be the same as the author info,
>> so the repository conversion is completely deterministic.
>
> 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.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."