Jim Meyering wrote: > "James Youngman" <jay@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> What tool was used to convert this repository to git? It should be corrected >>> to produce valid annotated tags. Especially if it is a tool within git. >> I don't know, Jim Meyering will know though, so I CC'ed him. > > I used parsecvs, probably with git-master from the date of > the initial conversion (check the archives for actual date). > That was long enough ago that it was almost certainly before > git-mktag learned to be more strict about its inputs. > > James, since you're about to rewrite the history, you may want to > start that process from a freshly-cvs-to-git-converted repository. > > I'm not very happy about using cvsparse (considering it's not > really being maintained, afaik), so if the git crowd > can recommend something better, I'm all ears. I've only used git-cvsimport. AFAIK it creates light-weight tags in git rather than annotated tags. It also uses an unmaintained tool: cvsps. There are some additional patches in a git repository somewhere that fix a few known problems. You could try that James. -brandon -- 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
