Gerrit Pape wrote: > Hi, I struggle with importing a CVS repository into git to switch over > development. In some branches there're differences in the source code > after importing into git. We tracked this down to tags and branches > that where tagged partially in CVS, first a tag was set on one > subdirectory tree (sources), later on another subdirectory tree (docs). > This confuses cvsimport or cvsps, the tag in git after import doesn't > match the tag in CVS. how do you expect this to ever work? your tag is not a time stable one. the tag spans multiple change sets. best forget the whole tag thing, seriously. my cvs converter [1] already has a hard time reproducing branches correctly. doing this with tags is impossible. svn can do this because they don't have tags, so it is a kind of fake. of course you could do this in git as well by actually creating a branch for a tag, but it is really messy. just don't do that. good luck simon [1]: <http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs>, not 100% yet, but probably the best you can get at the moment. i'm a perfectionist, so i might never call it "done". -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \ - 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.html
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