AW: New spin of repository conversion

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> > Another idea concerning the CVS conversion:  at the early stages of
> > the gnuplot CVS repo, files were moved from the top directory to
> > sub-directories. That is they were deleted and added to CVS again.
> > Hence the history before the move is kind of lost.  While not super
> > important, I wonder if this could be easily ammended now?
> 
> Can you be more specific about the time this happened, and in what way the
> git conversion fails to reflect the old history?
> 

If you look at 
http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuplot/gnuplot/?hideattic=0&pathr
ev=MAIN
there are a number of files marked "dead" deleted by Lars Hecking with a
commit 
comment "Moved to ..." Similarily for /NeXT/, /beos/, /win/, /os2/.  I was
wondering
if the history of these files could be prepended (again) to the history of
the destination 
files. That is if that is easy enough.  That part of the history was "lost"
some 18y ago ;)

  Bastian

> The way cvs-fast-export works *may* already solve this problem.  It scans
> masters in the attic directory - it has to,  because that's where deleted
files go.
> In fact attic files are treated pretty much as though they were at their
original,
> pre-attic locations, so if a commit clique is found by matching time and
> comment it does not matter that some of the file revisions are in the
attic and
> some are not.
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