Re: cvs2git wrongly deletes files when creating branches

Markus Schöpflin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 21.06.2010 13:01, schrieb Max Bowsher:
> On 21/06/10 09:59, Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>> But what I'm now seeing in my real repository is, that many commit (only
>> branch creations, AFAICT) don't have parents at all.
>
> Well I'm sure they have one parent, so I guess you mean they don't have
> multiple parents. :-)

Look at the copy&pasted output of 'gitk --all' below. No parent anywhere, 
not even one.

>> For example (conversion with current trunk, note that there is no parent,
>> but a large number of files are cherry picked):
>>
>> ---%<---
>> Author: cvs2svn<none>   2003-07-24 12:26:44
>> Committer: cvs2svn<none>   2003-07-24 12:26:44
>> Child:  cd74b51b72960f8e246b6ed0cedb7affa29fffcb
>> Branch: XYZ
>> Follows:
>> Precedes: abc
>>
>>       This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create branch 'XYZ'.
>>
>>       Cherrypick from ... 2002-08-16 13:50:11 UTC
>>         <here comes a large list of files>
>> --->%---

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Markus

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