Re: [Monotone-devel] tweaking ancestry after cvs_import

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 05:18:32AM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote:
> 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

Cool.

> 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.

It should be able to "handle" them in the sense it ignores anything it
doesn't understand :-) (and if it doesn't, that's a bug).

Actually using them to infer merges is probably not entirely trivial
(since, just like for inferring branch points, you have to go from a
bunch of individual file merges and try to infer a full tree merge,
which may not even be possible for some sets of individual file
records).  But if someone writes code to do it, it will happen :-).

-- Nathaniel

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