Re: Emacs Bazaar repository

[Andreas Schwab]

Michael Haggerty <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Also some important ones (such as EMACS_19_34, EMACS_20_4, and
>>> EMACS_21_1) are missing.
>> 
>> These are due to shortcomings of cvsps.
>
> Please be very careful with conversion tools that are based on cvsps.
> It is an admirable attempt at the very difficult job of allowing
> incremental operation, but it is known to give significantly incorrect
> output in many circumstances.

I know, I'm currently trying to fixup some of the mistakes it made.

> Please consider using cvs2svn for your conversion [4].

While I agree that cvs2svn is the best tool available to convert a CVS
repository, the biggest problem with it is that it is not incremental.
Having to start from scratch would throw away all the nice fixup made to
create proper merges (and there are _many_ merges in Emacs CVS).

Andreas.

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