Ok great. I'll try with the test repo that Kim had created and will report.
On 2011-07-07, at 12:23 PM, Paul Webster wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Pascal Rapicault <[email protected]> wrote:
> In preparation for the move of p2 to a git repo (see Tom's mail from 
> yesterday), I have been thinking about releasing large pending patches into 
> separate branches in CVS so that they are automatically carried over into the 
> new git repo, and thus saves the author some nightmare related to dealing 
> with reapplying the patch. What do you think about this?
> 
> Once your git repo is online and the projects imported into your workspace, 
> the patches *should* apply from within eclipse just as before.
> 
> If you commit them to CVS in a branch for the effected projects,  the tool we 
> use to convert cvs2git creates a "delete commit" at the base of the branch to 
> get rid of anything not tagged and branched from CVS.  This could make a 
> merge on the git side painful, and might force you to cherrypick your commit 
> across (just an inconvenience, I know).
> 
> Later,
> PW
> 
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