From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:01:24 GMT
Subject: Re: import determinism
Message-ID: <m2lj54u9uj.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mx0AAKo2Asn5XJVcs30-PLuwhTbM=o0y36Wa_@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 21:25, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>> I'm curious on how deterministic the imports (git-cvsimport and
>> git-svn) are. Suppose I close the same cvs repo twice (assuming
>> no write access in between), are the resulting object SHA-1's
>> the same ?
>
> No, because the committer dates will be different.

The committer info in every commit will be the same as the author info,
so the repository conversion is completely deterministic.

Andreas.

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