On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 15:53, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> So, if we're prepared to assert that we've never done that, could we >>> have an option to cvs2git that is willing to use the first commit on >>> a branch to represent the act of adding the file to the branch? > >> I'm afraid this would be pretty far down on my long todo list. > > Fair enough. > >> Somebody could use "git filter-branch" to make this change after the >> conversion, but I can't estimate how much work it would be. > > The conversion is already far better than I expected it would be when > we were first discussing this switch, so my inclination is to just live > with this one wart. > > I spent more time over the weekend comparing various branches' histories > between cvs2cl and Max's repository. I found a lot of places where > cvs2cl had problems :-(, but none where the git history could be blamed. > I'm ready to sign off on this conversion process as being Good Enough, > modulo two points: > > * Change the committer name assigned to manufactured commits, as already > mentioned. > > * Please make the manufactured commits read "cvs2git" not "cvs2svn". > I don't want people wondering in future when it was we used SVN. > > AFAIK both of these are trivial configuration fixes.
I'm actually re-running a migration right now with this - and with the change to use rcs instead of cvs, to see if I can reproduce Max's proper repository. You're saying you don't "require" a fix on the latest issue here? Or should we spend some time trying to figure out if we can fix it with git-filter-branch? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers