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Re: gdb_7_3-branch not buildable?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:43:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: gdb_7_3-branch not buildable?
- References: <878vvbkv3r.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
> That's many more differences than I expected,
> so maybe something is going wrong with the mirroring
> mechanism (note that git's top-level ChangeLog has four
> commits from april 4 that are not in git-cvs's ChangeLog file).
git-cvsimport can easily be confused by a branch that is created from a
point back in time. That's a fundamental restriction of cvsps, because
it only tells you about the revision of files that changed on the
branch, but you never know the revision of the files that are unchanged.
To fix that you have to manually reset the branch to the true
branchpoint. See <git://repo.or.cz/src> for a more precise rendition of
the src repository.
Andreas.
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