Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Aug 2, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: >> Steffen Prohaska wrote: >>> fromcvs's togit surrendered during the import. >>> fromcvs's tohg accepted more of the history, but finally >>> surrendered as well. >> >> Which repo is it you are converting? Is this available somewhere? > > Unfortunately not, the content is a proprietary software package. > >> I'd appreciate any reports concerning "surrenders" of fromcvs. >> [...] > > Some time passed since I did the tests. I had no time to do a > detailed investigation then. I'll have more time now and will > prepare a bug report, which is not easy because I can't sent you > the cvs repo, sorry. I wrote a couple of scripts for dealing with just this situation for cvs2svn bug reports, but they should also work for you, and I highly recommend them. Both scripts are included in the cvs2svn source tree: 1. contrib/destroy_repository.py [1] -- strips almost all of the information out of a CVS repository, including author names, log messages, and file contents (but not file names, commit dates, or branch/tag names). Most bugs are not affected by the omission of such data. Use of this script has the effect of deleting most information that might be considered proprietary and also shrinking the size of the test case considerably. Use of this script is described in the script comments itself and also in [2]. 2. contrib/shrink_test_case.py [2] -- you provide the script with a command that should "exit 0" if the bug you are looking for still exists. It does a kind of "binary search" through CVS repository space, iteratively attempting to delete a chunk of the CVS repository, running the test command, then (depending on whether the test succeeded) either reverting or making permanent the deletion. It can boil most test cases down to just 1-3 files (though presumably not if the "problem" is a 23-way merge). The things that it will try to delete are: - Entire directories and groups of directories - Entire files and groups of files - Branches within individual files - Tags within individual files It does this in a somewhat optimal way, trying to minimize the number of times that the test has to be run. This script is documented in its own comments and also in [4]. Michael [1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn/trunk/contrib/destroy_repository.py [2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#reportingbugs [3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn/trunk/contrib/shrink_test_case.py [4] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#testcase - 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
