cvs synthetic branchpoint commits (was Re: cvsps wrapper script on mercurial@)

Frank Kingswood frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Thu Oct 1 06:21:03 CDT 2009


Greg Ward wrote:

> Careful: if you get serious here, you are going to end up reinventing
> cvs2svn, which is 20,000 lines of pretty complex code.  Trying to get
> sane information out of CVS is a very difficult job, and AFAIK only
> cvs2svn has so far got it right.

:-)

It should be possible to get much better branch behaviour without adding 94 
passes (and 20000 lines of code) over the changelog. A built-in conversion 
that works for most straightforward projects is a good feature to have.

Frank


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