git cvsimport and deleted files

git cvsimport and deleted files

[Paul Mackerras]

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.

Is this a known problem?  Is it a limitation of cvsps?  I know that
cvs doesn't represent deletions explicitly anywhere, so I guess it's
not surprising, but it is a bit annoying.

Paul.

Re: git cvsimport and deleted files

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 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.

BTW do you have the repository locally?  Then you should import with 
cvs2svn or parsecvs instead.  These programs are both faster and more 
accurate than cvsimport.  And AFAIK you can use cvsimport on the generated 
repositories to update them incrementally.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: git cvsimport and deleted files

[Lars Noschinski]

* 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.

Re: git cvsimport and deleted files

[Lars Noschinski]

* 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.