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Re: [git] repo-layout question: cross-repo cherry-picking?

On Monday, November 21, 2011 06:21:35 PM Paul Webster wrote:
> I know we re-arranged our CVS repo git://
> git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git before we
> converted them to git (using cvs2git tool in
> http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html).  The cvs2git tool only cared about
> the versioning information in CVS' ,v files, not anything in the CVSROOT
> itself, so that made it easy to re-position the modules.  But this might
> have been easy for us to do because of the file-based nature of CVS.

Yes, since svn uses a db I would need to use "svn move" for preparing,
but this would only affect HEAD, all older revisions would still appear
under their original path. To me this sounds like I'll again lose the 
direct history connection when moving to git.

thanks anyway,
Stephan


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