[issue1211] hg convert (cvs) looses log entries -- due to a problem of cvsps

Makarius mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
Thu Jul 3 10:11:27 CDT 2008


New submission from Makarius <makarius at sketis.net>:

When using hg convert on a CVS repository, there is a pending danger of loosing
log entries without further notice!  This is actually a problem of cvsps, which
ignores log entries reading like "foo: bar;" on the first line, because they are
mistaken as "revision meta data".

Included as a minimal example CVS where the effect shows up routinely -- many
empty log messages in the resulting hg.

Maybe there there is a workaround on the hg convert side.  At least one could
consider to add some words of warning to the hg convert documentation etc.

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title: hg convert (cvs) looses log entries -- due to a problem of cvsps
topic: convert

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