Re: move to git

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > 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.

Just a thought, but nearly all of the freedesktop.org projects
(including all of X) were converted using Keith Packard's parsecvs
tool. I haven't heard of anyone complaining of incorrect history.

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/keithp/parsecvs.git;a=summary

--
Dan