[Monotone-devel] Re: What's the plans for cvs_import?

[graydon hoare]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:50:37 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I think that what I find most disturbing is that it thinks two commits
> *on* *the* *same* *file* is really one commit when the time difference
> is less than cvs_window.  I have a very hard time understanding how
> two commits on the same file can ever be regarded as one commit.

oh, well if the commits have the same author and changelog, it'll probably
do that; merely because it is not thinking about the structure of the
file anymore by the time it gets to aggregating commits. it's thinking
about whole-tree edits at that point, and it identifies such edits by
<author,changelog,time> triples. that's probably a bug.

perhaps it could be fixed by associating additional sets of
<RCS revision,file> pairs with a particular commit, and causing commits
to remain different if they contain dffering RCS revisions on the
same file. currently I think we throw RCS revision numbers away after
the branch structure is synthesized.

-graydon