Re: git cvsimport and deleted files

[Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>]

* Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [08-07-20 14:49]:
>> I just tried importing the CVS repository for a long-running project
>> (ppp) into git using git cvsimport.  It looks like git cvsimport
>> doesn't notice when files have been deleted, so files that used to be
>> present and were subsequently deleted are present in the git tree for
>> the most recent commit.
>
>I never had that problem.  See 
>http://repo.or.cz/w/libvncserver.git?a=commit;h=8dead0759febaa7176507e1bde13ebd9d2a30720
>for a commit that was imported with cvsimport.
>
>So your issue must lie somewhere else.

I encountered such an issue some time ago in incremental mode, when
another person did some cvs branch stuff. The error persisted even as I
did a clean checkout, but disappeared, after I deleted all the cvsps
cache files.

I failed to report the error, because I had not much time for debugging
at that time and I would not have been able to publish the repository.

That's when I switched to fromcvs, which seems to work reliably so far (and
much faster), but requires a local repository.