Re: Trial git repo is back up

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>:
> On 10/16/2017 01:17 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >Trial git repo is back up, with the conversion bug I previously noted fixed.
> 
> Also, the branches are tags are not in the repository, at least not in the
> conventional way.  In neither git-gui, gitk nor gitg are there any branches
> listed other than "master" and "origin > master".  It could be there is some
> fragments of branches though.  In gitk I look at the visual, colored
> branches.  There are no bifurcations, but there are occasional colored lines
> appearing that then go away.  I suspect that those lines are supposed to be
> the branches.  I'm attaching a small portion of a screen shot illustrating
> how the line changes color rather than splitting out into branch.
> 
> My guess is that all the changeset info is there, but the labels that
> associate branch names with the SHAs are missing.
> 
> Dan
> 

CVS branch labels turn into git lightweight tags. Look at the output
of git tag -l to check whether any tags actually got lost in the conversion.

The way gitk displays these (or doesn't) is confusing - I've never quite
understood its rules.  Adding the --tags option shows more of them.
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