On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:03:16PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > >I also see that many "changes" in the CVS seem to be useless: there > > >are no changes other than file version increments. > > > > SVN metadata changes will appear in CVS as version changes only. The > > most obvious/common case is branching - branching a native CVS repo > > just adds the branch tags. Branching a SVN repo replicates the tree > > and the SVN->CVS exporter turns the branch into a commit that touches > > each affected file. > > Thank you for the insight into theory, however the practical results > are annoying. For example, running mergemaster has become a nightmare. > It considers every file to be changed (unless you do some black magic > with DIFF_OPTIONS to ignore \$FreeBSD:.*\$).
Or if you use mergemaster's -F flag which seems to exist for exactly this type of situation. > > BTW what does cvsup (in CVS mode) do with an RCS file to which only a > branch tag has been added? How does it mirror such a change? Just > curious. It will add the tag to the file of course. (In CVS tags are stored inside each RCS file.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
