[Monotone-devel] Re: cvs import

[Jon Smirl]

On 9/14/06, Jakub Narebski <address@hidden> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce wrote:
>
> > Originally I wanted Jon Smirl to modify the cvs2svn (...)
>
> By the way, will cvs2git (modified cvs2svn) and git-fast-import publicly
> available?

It has some unresolved problems so I wasn't spreading it around everywhere.

It is based on cvs2svn from August. There has been too much change to
the current cvs2svn to merge it anymore. It is going to need
significant rewrite. But cvs2svn will all change again if it converts
to the dependency model. It is better to get a backend independent
interface build into cvs2svn.

It it not generating an accurate repo. cvs2svn is outputting tags
based on multiple revisions, git can't do that. I'm just tossing some
of the tag data that git can't handle. I base the tag on the fist
revision which is not correct.

If the repo is missing branch tags cvs2svn may turn a single missing
branch into hundreds of branches. The Mozilla repo has about 1000
extra branches because of this.

Sometime cvs2svn will partial copy from another rev to generate a new
rev. Git doesn't do this so I am tossing the copy requests. I need to
figure out how to hook into the data before cvs2svn tries to copy
things.

cvs2svn makes no attempt to detect merges so gitk will show 1,700
active branches when there are really only 10 currently active
branches in Mozilla.

That said 99.9% of Mozilla CVS is in the output git repo, but it isn't
quite right.

If you still want the code I'll send it to you.

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Jon Smirl
address@hidden