Re: Problems with cvs2git and branches

Michael Graff wrote:
> I am attempting to convert a rather large (10 years worth) of CVS into
> git.  I'm running into a strange problem that I am not certain if it's
> my misuse of the tool, something strange in git that I did not expect to
> see, or what exactly...
> 
> When I run cvs2git the trunk converts over seemingly perfectly.
> However, the branches have only files that CHANGED on the branch.
> 
> For example, if the master branch has a file called "X" and it did not
> change on a branch (but is there when the branch is checked out via CVS)
> it will not appear on the branch with "git checkout" -- if the file "X"
> changed on the branch, however, it is there (and seems to have the
> appropriate changes.)

This is certainly not the intended behavior of cvs2git, and if it is
true, then it is a bug.

> Is there something I did wrong?

That's kindof hard to determine, given that you didn't tell us what you
did.  Please report this with the information we need, including a
reproducible test case, as described in the FAQ [1,2], then we may be
able to help you.

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#reportingbugs
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#testcase

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