Re: New spin of repository conversion

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

Bastian Märkisch <bma...@we...>:
> > 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 ;)

This probably didn't lose any history at all.  If these were moved
back to their original locations later, then both moves will be part
of the gitspace history.

Frankly, if this has gone wrong, I'd be very nervous about trying to
fix it.  CVS is flaky enough even when used as intended; moving around
or otherwise messing with master files behind CVS's back tends to make
very bad things happen.
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