Re: cvsimport/cvsps: wrong revisions in branch

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Martin Langhoff wrote:
On 1/26/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
how do you expect this to ever work?  your tag is not a time stable one.
I agree on that, but you _can_ try a range of importers. I think you
should give Keith Packard's parsecvs a try. It is memory-bound and
won't do incremental imports but it manages to import some repos
cvsimport can't do directly.

whichever importer you try, it *will* fail to create pure tags equivalent to the CVS tag.  it is not possible.  of course you can do trickery and create branches to simulate crooked tags.

The other option is to use cvs2svn, which is the most conservative and
careful importer around, and most likely to be able to deal with your
insane tags. And then git-svnimport right after ;-)

yes, cvs2svn is quite top notch regarding the brokenness in repos it tolerates.  however, going from svn to git is equally complicated again, as you can't nicely convert svn's copy-to-branch if it again copies files from different revisions.  you just converted the problem to svn, but you didn't make it go away.

cheers
 simon

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