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Re: [cdt-dev] Missing some files in CDT git mirror
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The real solution is to move CDT to git ;)
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, James Blackburn
<jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15 November 2010 15:02, Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Could the dsf-gdb folder not be mirrored properly?
>
> The short answer is that you should file a bug against the
> infrastructure to re-create the git mirror.
>
> The webmasters use git cvsimport to track the CVS repositories.
> Unfortunately this uses cvsps which by default caches the cvs server
> response. As CVS isn't atomic this can easily produce an inconsistent
> repository. What's worse is there there isn't any verification that
> the head of the branches matches the head of the branches as seen in
> CVS...
>
> Re-creating the repo will of course this'll mean that anyone pulling
> from the mirror will need to re-base.
>
> cvs2git is a better bet for reliable conversions. Unfortunately,
> without tweaking, it doesn't support incremental conversions, and
> takes longer than git cvsimport. I contributed a change a checker to
> the cvs2git package for verifying that the source in a conversion is
> _identical_ to the original in CVS repo. It checks each tag and the
> tip of every branch, which could be useful when we move to git for
> real.
>
> Cheers,
> James
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