Re: move to git

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Andreas Schwab wrote on Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:14:12AM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > GNU Libtool's primary source repository is now managed with git:
>> > <http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=libtool>
>> >
>> > Note that there were several conversions, so the current repo has been
>> > rewound and is not a continuation of the earlier, read-only git repo.
>>
>> There are now many release-* tags that point to the same commit, which
>> is preceded by a series of commits that only change the file libtool.prj
>> (apparently some kind of control file for PRCS).  In the CVS repository
>> these tags were all conntected to different changesets.
>
> That would be release-0-6b through release-1-2c, right?
>
> 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.