On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't quite understand what happened. With the repo converted from > > CVS, the tag SHAs were all different, but they already pointed to the > > same tree object. After the filter-branch rewrite, they now all have > > the same SHA. I suspect the bug happens earlier. Jim, can you take > > a look? > > Hi Ralf, > I'm beginning to think that our time might be better spent > investigating an alternate conversion method: cvs2git. > Unfortunately, I might not have time for that right away.
Just a thought, but nearly all of the freedesktop.org projects (including all of X) were converted using Keith Packard's parsecvs tool. I haven't heard of anyone complaining of incorrect history. http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/keithp/parsecvs.git;a=summary -- Dan _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
