[Monotone-devel] Re: cvs import

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:04:13PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
> >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.
> 
that's certainly due to some hash being iterated. python intentionally
randomizes this to make wrong assumptions obvious.
there is actually a patch pending to improve the branch source selection
drastically. maybe this is affected as well.

> For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely 
> on timestamps does not have that problem.
> 
i think that's unrelated.

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