On Dec 30, 2019, "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <richard.earns...@arm.com> wrote:
> Right, (and wrong). You have to understand how the release branches and > tags are represented in CVS to understand why the SVN conversion is done > this way. I'm curious and ignorant, is the convoluted representation that Maxim described what SVN normally uses for tree copies, that any conversion tool from SVN to GIT thus ought to be able to figure out, or is it just an unusual artifact of the conversion from CVS to SVN, that we'd like to fix in the conversion from SVN to GIT with some specialized recovery for such errors in repos poorly converted from CVS? Thanks in advance for cluing me in, -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Free Software Evangelist Stallman was right, but he's left :( GNU Toolchain Engineer FSMatrix: It was he who freed the first of us FSF & FSFLA board member The Savior shall return (true);
