Re: cvs2git reports a "sprout" from a nonexistent commit?

From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Max Bowsher <maxb(at)f2s(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cvs2git reports a "sprout" from a nonexistent commit?
Date: 2010-09-13 07:32:15
Message-ID: 4C8DD37F.3030601@alum.mit.edu
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On 09/13/2010 03:14 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> [...]
>
> Now as far as I can tell, the branch was made immediately before those
> test commits you can see Marc making in each branch. In particular,
> it was definitely made *after* Bryan deleted the src/bin/monitor files,
> because neither of them have REL2_0 or REL2_0B tags. So why did cvs2git
> choose to sprout the branch from the commit before that, and have to
> duplicate the deletion of the files?

This is a known bug 139 [1] in cvs2git's symbol parent choosing code
(previously mentioned as part of bug 55 [2]). Patches are welcome :-)

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=139
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55

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