From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Max Bowsher <maxb(at)f2s(dot)com> |
Cc: | Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: git: uh-oh |
Date: | 2010-08-20 11:02:00 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTinJyQJSq5B4gMdsD1oUFxt3FaZiMzOnKLzwgzCq@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 09:49, Max Bowsher <maxb(at)f2s(dot)com> wrote:
> On 19/08/10 10:35, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:00, Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> Is there some way to make cvs2git work this way, and just not bother
>>>> even trying to create merge commits, or is that fundamentally
>>>> impossible and we need to look at another tool?
>>>
>>> The good news: (I just reminded myself/realized that) Max Bowsher has
>>> already implemented pretty much exactly what you want in the cvs2svn
>>> trunk version, including noting in the commit messages any cherry-picks
>>> that are not reflected in the repo ancestry.
>>
>> Ah, that's great.
>
> I should mention that the way it notes this is to reference commits by
> their timestamp, author and initial line of log message - it does this
> because cvs2git doesn't know the commit sha ever - that doesn't appear
> until the stream is fed through git fast-import. I did briefly raise the
> idea of augmenting the fast-import process to support substituting
> fast-import marks to shas in log messages, but didn't get time to take
> it beyond an idea.
>
>>> The bad news: It is broken [1]. But I don't think it should be too much
>>> work to fix it.
>>
>> That's less great of course, but it gives hope!
>>
>> Thanks for your continued efforts!
>
> I've just made a commit to cvs2svn trunk. I hope this should now be fixed.
Great. I will download and test the trunk version soon. I'm currently
running a test using cvs2svn and then git-svn clone from that - but
it's insanely slow (been going for 30+ hours now, and probably has
8-10 hours more to go)...
--
Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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