Help converting a large repository

Dear all,

I've a rather large repository which I would like to convert to git. The current repository layout in CVS is a two layer structure

SubSystem/Package

where each package is tagged independently with a VXX-YY-ZZ tag. The release is than assembled from a list of pairs

[(SubSystem/Package, Tag)]

which is stored in separate database (yuk... I know). The release is then tagged with a global tag and I do know both the order in which the global tags where done, e.g.

v5_3_0 -> v5_3_1 -> v6_0_0

and the possible branch points, e.g.:

                  > v5_3_2 -> v5_3_3 
                 /
v5_3_0 -> v5_3_1 -> v6_0_0

given I do no care about the per package tags, but only the global tags, I would have expected that simply having a symbols-hints file which does:

. v5_3_0 tag . .
. v5_3_1 tag v5_3_0 .
. v5_3_2 tag v5_3_1 .
. v5_3_3 tag v5_3_2 .
. v6_0_0 tag v5_3_2 .

would have solved my problem, but it does not. In particular I'm not sure how to make sure v5_3_1 actually results in a new branch (let's call it v5_3_X branch), and I'm not sure how to deal with the per package branches which pollute the repository, but which I do not care about. Any hint of what I should look for?

-- 
Ciao,
Giulio

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