Re: Can't identify parent of branch

I'm certainly willing to try hacking it.  I'd appreciate any pointers you
could provide to set me in the right direction.

P.S.  I still do wonder why cvs2svn doesn't consistently identify, or not
identify, the trunk as the parent when files are initially added on a branch.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Can't identify parent of branch
From: Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>
To: John McNamee <[email protected]>
Date: 11/9/2010 7:48 AM

> On 11/09/2010 02:04 PM, John McNamee wrote:
>>  That makes sense, but the same pattern (file created on branch) exists in
>>  thousands of other files, and cvs2svn selects the trunk as the parent.
>>
>>  If this were merely cosmetic, I wouldn't care.  The operational problem I'm
>>  having has to do with symbol hints.  My conversion project involves taking
>>  a single large CVS repository and breaking it up into ~50 separate SVN
>>  repositories.  I've got a "master" symbol hints file that I want to use
>>  for these separate conversions.  The hints file was created based on a
>>  run through the entire CVS repository, and then some hand editing was
>>  applied.  The entry for the "symbol00904" branch lists the parent as the
>>  trunk.  cvs2svn generates an error if the symbol hints declare a parent
>>  that isn't one of the "possible parents".
>
> The problem is obviously arising because you are trying to apply a hints
> file derived from a full conversion to conversions of only part of the
> repository.  It shouldn't be too hard to change the code so that when
> the check fails, it doesn't abort but instead ignores that particular
> symbol hint and falls back to something like the heuristic parent
> chooser.  If you would like to make this change yourself, I'd be happy
> to get you started.
>
> Michael

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