Re: git cvsimport: new tags not imported on second cvsimport

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2012, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <m2lihuuwnz.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v7gte9una.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Reset the branch back to before the import.
>
> Does the resulting history created by cvsimport after resetting a
> branch back to an older point exactly match the history before
> resetting (obviously modulo the tag that has been added since the
> original import)?

Usually it does.

> I recall that cvsimport tried hard to be reproducible and it should
> work, but I haven't run cvsimport myself for a long time, so...

As long as cvsps detects the same changesets.

Andreas.

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