From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:37:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87skyvse7k.fsf@xmission.com> <47DE8772.7010802@alum.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205771836 19173 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2008 16:37:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bazaar@lists.canonical.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Haggerty Original-X-From: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Mon Mar 17 17:37:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from chlorine.canonical.com ([91.189.94.204]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JbILJ-00083U-9Q for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:37:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbIKg-0002KL-Up; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:37:07 +0000 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbIKe-0002KF-RY for bazaar@lists.canonical.com; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:37:04 +0000 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620D635DF2; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:37:04 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I'd like MY data-base JULIENNED and stir-fried! In-Reply-To: <47DE8772.7010802@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Mon\, 17 Mar 2008 16\:00\:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: bazaar@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general:38826 gmane.emacs.devel:92837 Archived-At: Michael Haggerty writes: > Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >>=20 >>> Also some important ones (such as EMACS_19_34, EMACS_20_4, and >>> EMACS_21_1) are missing. >>=20 >> These are due to shortcomings of cvsps. > > Please be very careful with conversion tools that are based on cvsps. > It is an admirable attempt at the very difficult job of allowing > incremental operation, but it is known to give significantly incorrect > output in many circumstances. I know, I'm currently trying to fixup some of the mistakes it made. > Please consider using cvs2svn for your conversion [4]. While I agree that cvs2svn is the best tool available to convert a CVS repository, the biggest problem with it is that it is not incremental. Having to start from scratch would throw away all the nice fixup made to create proper merges (and there are _many_ merges in Emacs CVS). Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."