[m-rev.] Converting to Git.

[Paul Bone]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 11:41:12AM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:25:18AM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >>
> >> I think so too, although it seems to have resurrected a number of files that
> >> had been deleted in CVS, e.g.
> >>
> >>     compiler/callgraph.m
> >>     compiler/implication.m
> >>     compiler/ml_dense_switch.m
> >>     compiler/vn_livemap.m
> >>
> >> all shouldn't be there.
> >>
> >
> > We can remove them in the current version, In fact I'll do this now.
> >
> > We may have to do this on other branches that we care about as we find them,
> > and for other files as we find them.
> >
> > I suspect that this is caused by how CVS tags tag files rather than a
> > repository version, and how cvs2git interprets those tags (for both tags and
> > branches).
> 
> The Mercury repository was a bit dodgy in places; I suspect cvs2git
> was based on cvs2svn
> and the latter certainly had problems with it.

Yes, it is true that cvs2git is based on cvs2svn.  So I agree that this is
likly to be part of the cause.


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Paul Bone
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