Re: [SPAM] Re: GIT mirror not updating

Kris Jurka wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
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>> Perhaps now is a good time to give up on these scripts, rebuild the
>> repository using git-cvsimport?
>>
>
> My experience with git-cvsimport has been poor. For me it often puts
> commits on the wrong branches. It uses the first commit to the branch
> as the branch start time, so a branch will show commits to head as being
> on the branch until the first commit to the branch.

I just tried running git-cvsimport on the PG repository, and I can see
what you mean. You're right, that's not acceptable.

> The only cvs->git converter that's really worked for me (does all
> branches, tags, keyword removal, ...) has been parsecvs [1] which isn't
> terribly user friendly and is not incremental.
>
> [1]
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#head-769e9aa96370a5b3d0356c918f310c177c0799fe

"Not incremental" rules that one out, unfortunately.

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