Re: git fast-export issue -- anyone know if this is a bug or a feature?

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Hi,

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The "source" repository is one that has been created by cvs2git (which
> operated on a franken cvs repository munged together from lots of
> different places; I'm running git-fast-export & git-fast-import based
> on it since I want to do some extra changes outside of cvs2git).  In
> the source repository, I noticed that 6 of the earliest commits in one
> root of history looked like:
>
>     /--E
>    /  /
> A--C--D
>  /
>  B
>
> In the "mirrored" repository, I notice this history had been modified
> so that it looked like
>
>        E
>       /
> A--C--D
>  /
>  B
>
> The latter history seems much more sane to me; since D is a child of
> C, making E a merge of C and D seemed really weird.  I did pour over

I think I found the source of the bug, and have sent out a couple
patches in separate emails.  However, I wanted to correct my statement
here.  The repositories created by cvs2git did not have such a commit
history; I think it was simply too late at night and I wasn't reading
things correctly.

Elijah
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