[PING] Re: cvs2git wrongly deletes files when creating branches

I still believe that there is something seriously wrong with the 
conversion, as the output below doesn't show any parent.

Or am I misinterpreting the output of git?

Am 21.06.2010 13:05, schrieb Markus Schöpflin:
> 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>
>>> --->%---

Markus

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