Re: [Monotone-devel] tweaking ancestry after cvs_import

[Thomas Keller]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Right, there's only one way to indicate "branch collapse" in the
> database -- just make the successor a monotone-style merge revision.
> But I don't have any ideas on how to actually do this conveniently for
> cvs imports.  The information is definitely not in the cvs repo, so we
> can't work it out automatically during import.

This is true for CVS, but not for its successor CVSNT, which is Open 
Source as well and especially heavily used on Windows:

http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/MergePoint

Though I have no idea if mtn's cvs_import will handle anything beyond 
the original RCS format of CVS or if something like that is planned.

Thomas.


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