[Monotone-devel] Re: cvs import

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Jon Smirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Let's copy the git list too and maybe we can come up with one importer
> > for everyone.
>
> It's a really good idea. cvsps has been for a while a (limited, buggy)
> attempt at that. One thing that bothers me in the cvs2svn algorithm is
> that is not stable in its decisions about where the branching point is
> -- run the import twice at different times and it may tell you that
> the branching point has moved.

Huh? Really? Why is that? I don't see reasons for such a thing happening 
when studying the algorithm.

For sure the proposed dependency-resolving algorithm which does not rely 
on timestamps does not have that problem.

Regards

Markus