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Re: Info about available CVS/Arch/Git branches


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Info about available CVS/Arch/Git branches
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:32:25 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> It would appear that this repo is made from CVS.  If it is feasible,
> it might me nicer to do this from the arch repo since that would
> presumably keep track of the merges (information that is missing from
> CVS).  I've had mediocre success using git archimport however.

The arch repo is missing too much information to be useful for import.

> Maybe it is also possible to extract just the merge info (which commit
> was merged into which branch) in textual form from arch?

You can use the commit message to detect merges, but you'll have to hack
the import script to map the arch names back to the CVS branch names.

Andreas.

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