Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 5/31/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> That gentoo repo has a lot of "duplicate" commits that cvsps will mark as >> two separate commits because there's one commit for the files, and one >> commit for whatever the "Manifest" file is. I wonder if those commits >> should generally be merged or something. >> >> That said, things like that are most easily fixed as a git->git update >> (along with adding name translation), which can avoid re-writing the >> trees. > > Yep, large projects often have good reasons to run custom imports, > merging certain commits, rewriting log messages (like the X.org guys > were doing). It can be done at the cvsimport stage or later -- I think > Pasky has a rewritehistory tool hidden somewhere in Cogito, but I > haven't used it. We've got a guy who got a Summer of Code project to work on CVS migration, so this could be something along his lines. Thanks, Donnie
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