Re: cvs2git --dumpfile not created

Michel SIMIAN <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:40:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 2012-06-21 16:56, Michael Haggerty a écrit :


> This means that somebody manually reset the default branch back to
> 1.1.1 after having made local edits to the file.  CVS does not retain
> enough information for cvs2git to infer the correct history of such a
> file.  If you want to retain the history, you need to fix up these
> files manually (either remove the default branch setting or remove
> revisions 1.2 (and later if any).

Yes. We use a cvs admin command to fix that problem.

>
> You can either change TRUNC to point at a real revision, or delete
> that symbol (which is just the same result as ignoring the warning).

OK.

>
> Try the trunk version of cvs2git.  It should work better than the
> release version.  It might fix your problem with files of zero size,
> but if it doesn't then at least you will be working with a version
> that somebody might have an interest in fixing.

I tried it. cvs2git --version gives 2.4 (and those supplied with 
synaptic was a 2.3 release)

It's worth :( The fast-import crashed, giving a report file.
May I send this file to someone ?

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