On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:26:24AM -0600, Chris Rorvick wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:28 AM, John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In my opinion the incremental import support really is substantially > > worse in cvsimport-3 than cvsimport-2. cvsimport-2 looks at the output > > of git-for-each-ref to calculate the dates from which to continue each > > branch. cvsps cannot be told this information and so the cvsimport-3 > > script just takes the date of the last commit on the current branch. > > Do you really need a timestamp per branch, though? If you have > branches A and B, and B has a commit timestamp 5 minutes after A, you > can infer that nothing happened on A for those five minutes, right? > So maybe a single timestamp is sufficient, it just may not be picking > the right one. Instead cvsimport-3 should compute the latest > timestamp across all import branches. The problem is telling which is an import branch, since it currently just used "refs/heads/<branch>". I do have a change to write the timestamp to a file, which takes the newest commit across all of the branches that have changed during an import. That may well be good enough but doesn't let you incrementally update a repository that has been cloned from elsewhere. John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html