Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

David Mansfield [off-list ref] wrote:

Catalin Marinas wrote:

quoted

AFAIK, cvsps uses the date/time to create the changesets. There is a
problem with the BKCVS export since some files in the same commit can
have a different time (by an hour). I posted a mail some time ago
about this -
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110026570201544&w=2
I read that the old history won't be merged into the new repository
but, if you are interested, I have a script that can do this based on
the "(Logical change ...)" string in the file commit logs and it is
quite fast at generating the patches.

Hmmm.  I read that message just now.  Is it a matter of 'perfection'
that is the issue here, or actual correctness when applying the
patches in order?

I see it as a matter of correctness since in a given BKCVS changeset
(i.e. revision in the ChangeSet,v file) you may miss files. You would
eventually get them, with the same log, but in a different patch. If
you don't care about this, you can call it 'perfection'.

At that time I thought about modifying cvsps to use the "(Logical
change ...)" string instead of time/date for grouping the files but I
realised it is easier with a shell script.

(perhaps this has now been fixed).

There was no reply to this e-mail. It might have been fixed in the
meantime but I don't think the history was fixed as well.

-- 
Catalin