time to switch from CVS to Git, was: Missing mailings from commits
Subject: time to switch from CVS to Git, was: Missing mailings from commits
From: James Amundson
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:26:24 -0600
On 02/24/2011 12:29 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> You can see that cvs2git does a rather bad job in
> comparison to git-cvsimport: the diff file sizes
> are
>
> Release 5.22 5.23
> git cvsimport 3.3K 3.3K
> cvs2git 363K 691K
>
> I've not bothered with more testing on earlier branches.
> Note that cvs2git doesn't like $Id$ tags, and it has lost
> files (including in the Attic).
OK, it looks like I made the wrong choice in resolving attic problems.
Let's try this version:
http://amundson-long.net/maximav2.git.tar.bz2
Some notes:
1) We should ignore special RCS comments, e.g.,
-# $Id: texi2html,v 1.5 2007/04/14 21:56:43 robert_dodier Exp $
+# $Id$
They don't have any real meaning in the git repository.
2) Since I'm using a cvs snapshot from Ray, we should be comparing
against that, not the current CVS. I put a copy of the snapshot here:
http://amundson-long.net/maxima-cvs-2011-15.tar.bz2
--Jim