Re: Bazaar migration status?

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 22:43, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > (And likewise for everyone downstream.)  After all, it will be in a
> > sense the same repository
>
> To quote one of my less favorite Presidents, "There you go again!" :-)
> See?  You're very willing to go with "I know they're the same, so, yo
> git, what's your problem?"  I have no problems with humans saying
> that, but it's the *last* kind of attitude we want our VCS to take!

In the general case I'd agree, but here we're talking about two  
conversions of the same repository -- one from cvs to git, and the  
other from cvs to bzr and then to git.

> It is, except that the conversion from CVS is fraught with
> nondeterminism;

Ah, I guess that's what I was missing....

> That, I believe, is true.  But AIUI it's not because of inherent
> nondeterminism in the conversion process being used, it's because CVS
> suffers from nonatomic commits.  The history is continuously being
> cleaned up (the conversion process tuned), so that in fact the
> official bzr repository will have a different history from the
> existing CVS->git mirror.

That makes sense.  Thank you for the explanation.  I think I was  
assuming we'd have the same conversion process, without any tuning  
since whatever generated the git repo.  But given that we're talking  
about conversion of the main, official repository, getting it done as  
well as possible this time makes more sense.

Ken