On 9/14/06, Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On 9/14/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Let's copy the git list too and maybe we can come up with one importer > >> for everyone. > > > > It's a really good idea. cvsps has been for a while a (limited, buggy) > > attempt at that. One thing that bothers me in the cvs2svn algorithm is > > that is not stable in its decisions about where the branching point is > > -- run the import twice at different times and it may tell you that > > the branching point has moved. > > Huh? Really? Why is that? I don't see reasons for such a thing happening > when studying the algorithm. > > For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely > on timestamps does not have that problem. IIRC, it places branch tags as late as possible. I haven't looked at it in detail, but an import immediately after the first commit against the branch may yield a different branchpoint from the same import done a bit later. cheers, martin - 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.htmlReceived on Thu Sep 14 07:16:10 2006
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