Re: [Monotone-devel] tweaking ancestry after cvs_import

[Tony Tung]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:20:09PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> > cvs_import is relatively simplistic on how it does things.  It's far
> > better to use something like tailor or the cvssync branch (which I
> > understand is going to a major overhaul) to have a more accurate
> > representation of the cvs tree.
>
> Err... I'm pretty sure tailor doesn't support branches at all.
> cvssync didn't use to, though I think there's some code in there for
> it now... Christof would know better exactly what it can do wrt branch
> reconstruction.
>
> -- Nathaniel

Thanks to all of you for the tips.  I'll take a look at the cvssync  
branch.

Any thoughts on how to indicate a branch collapse in the database?   
As I understand it, the predecessors' hash is part of the computation  
of the revision hash.  That would mean that all successor hashes  
would need to be updated....

Tony