Re: git: uh-oh

From: "Matthew D(dot) Fuller" <fullermd(at)over-yonder(dot)net>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: git: uh-oh
Date: 2010-08-17 21:52:48
Message-ID: 20100817215248.GB58735@over-yonder.net
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:57:02PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Alex Hunsaker, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 13:52, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > How sure are we that its not the cvs2svn step that is screwing it up?
>
> urp, I jumped to a conclusion while skimming the cvs2git.options
> file Magnus posted. With all the references to svn and things like
> "GitRevisionRecorder('cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat')". It sure sounded
> like it converts to svn first and then to git... im not sure what
> it does.

It's not that it converts to svn, but that it's built on (/part of)
cvs2svn, so presumably a lot of the "figure out changesets and branch
membership" logic and the "get things in the shape svn wants" logic
are intertwined.

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