RE: [Monotone-devel] cvs and monotone

[Kelly F. Hickel]

Somehow I missed Markus' reply, and just found it in the archives,
so....

>Markus Schiltknecht
>Sun, 27 May 2007 11:55:04 -0700
>
>Hi,
>
>Kelly F. Hickel wrote:
>
>    Is reality really as dark as it seems at the moment????
>
>If you really need connected branches, I fear the answer is yes.
Yes, we pretty much do.  We could choose a small subset of branches, but
being unable do it at all seems like a pretty big roadblock.
>
>
>I'm still struggling with the cvsimport-branch-reconstruction branch of
>monotone. But CVS is so wicked and brain damaged that it's very hard to
>get usable information from it.
>
>Is your CVS repository publicly available?
No, it's not.....
>
>Regards
>
>Markus

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Kelly F. Hickel
Senior Software Architect
MQSoftware, Inc
952.345.8677
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> Subject: [Monotone-devel] cvs and monotone
> 
> Was about to do another rtest import of our cvs repo to play around
> with
> the new mtn.  Ran into the fact that the cvs_import command has a new
> required argument (or at least one I don't remember using) named
> -branch.  What's that for??
> 
> While googling for the answer to that, I ran into this page
> http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/MonotoneAndCVS which contains the
> following terribly disturbing nugget:
> 
> There is an important limitation, though. This method doesn't
> presently
> try to attach branches to their parents, either on the mainline or on
> other branches, instead each CVS branch gets its own separate linear
> history in the resulting monotone db.
> 
> That's pretty amazingly disturbing, especially since I don't believe
> I'd
> ever seen that statement before....
> 
> Assuming that's actually true, it seems to be a pretty big problem.
> We'd discussed just skimming the currently active branches from cvs
> into
> monotone, but even that is problematical if it's not going back to the
> most recent common ancestor of the branches.
> 
> I also ran across this: http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/CvsImport which
> at
> least gives me hope.
> 
> 
> Is reality really as dark as it seems at the moment????
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> --
> Kelly F. Hickel
> Senior Software Architect
> MQSoftware, Inc
> 952.345.8677
> address@hidden
> 
> 
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