Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation

On 8/2/07, Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] wrote:

Branches with names like "unlabeled-1.1.1" come from CVS branches for
which the revisions are still contained in the RCS files but for which
the branch name has been deleted.  These wreak havoc on cvs2svn's
attempt to find simple branch sources and cause a proliferation of
basically useless branches.  The main problem is that cvs2svn does not
attempt to figure out that "unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the
same as "unlabeled-1.2.6" in another etc.

I seem to recall discussing an algorithm  to fix this on the cvs2svn
mailing list. There was a somewhat simple way to correlate the
"unlabeled-1.2.4" in one file might be the same as "unlabeled-1.2.6"
problem.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com