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

[Niko Sams]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 23:02, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> 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.
For quanta I have written a script that figures out the tags adds them.
I'll push it later.

Niko