Re: corrupted ,v files break cvs-to-git mirror

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Does anyone here have any idea how that happened?
>>> FYI, here's the second "1.1" log entry, from "cvs log" output:
>>> [What does "Moved" mean? ]
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.1
>>> date: 2005/08/23 20:05:32;  author: jhd;  state: Exp;
>>> Moved from international.  Old log:
>>> ;;; swedish.el --- miscellaneous functions for dealing with Swedish.
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.12
>>> date: 2005/07/04 17:22:27;  author: lute;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
>>> Update FSF's address.
>>> ----------------------------
>>> 
>>> I hope it's easily fixed.
>> 
>> It looks as if the stuff past "Moved old log:" are _not_ actual CVS
>> revisions, but all part of the _log message_ for revision 1.1 -- i.e.,
>> the person who did the "move" just copied the entire CVS log of from the
>> old location verbatim, and stuffed into his log entry.

> Yes, I did that.  How else can we preserve the CVS log when moving files?

All you need to put in the log is where to find the rest of the history, by
saying something like "moved from ../foo/bar".


        Stefan