[Kde-scm-interest] cvs2svn converted tag created from branch

[Matt Rogers]

On Saturday 13 March 2010 04:02:08 pm Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Sábado 13. Março 2010, às 08.29.51, você escreveu:
> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 15:08, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > > Em Sábado 13. Março 2010, às 00.57.57, Niko Sams escreveu:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> 
> > >> I still working on quanta conversion and need some advice (Thiago?) on
> > >> this commit:
> > >> http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=212623
> > >> 
> > >> The thing is tag 3.1.0 has been created from branch 3.1, but cvs2svn
> > >> did this by copying /trunk, removing unneded stuff and copying the
> > >> individual files from 3.1.
> > >> 
> > >> Very simplified rules that show just this problem are below, they can
> > >> be run very quickly with
> > >> --resume-from 190000 --max-rev 200000
> > > 
> > > I don't see any way of doing that in svn2git because the history is
> > > actually wrong in SVN, from the way that svn2git looks at it.
> > > 
> > > I'd recommend that you do the import as-is and fix it up in Git later.
> > 
> > afaics this issue is not restricted to quanta - it affects KDE too:
> > http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=218032
> > 
> > Or am I wrong?
> 
> No, you're not.
> 
> But the entire set of branches imported from CVS is broken. Don't bother
> with them when importing from SVN to Git.
> 
> They need to be reimported from CVS.

how exactly are we going to do that?
-- 
Matt