Re: Tags missing from GIT mirror?

Florian Pflug wrote:
> On May 12, 2010, at 21:52 , Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> David Christensen wrote:
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>>> Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git?  I've wished for those to be available as well.
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>> Sure, fix fromcvs  to emit them. How is your ruby?
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> Where does one find the version of fromcvs used to feed git.postgresql.org? I might give it a shot.
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> I can't promise anything, though - my ruby-fu is OK, but my cvs-fu is badly lacking...
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Fix the tip version. You'll need fromcvs and rcsparse from 
<http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg>. We already know that the version 
used on the community repo is broken. The version I am using on my 
github mirror is holding up OK. There is a recipe for setting up a 
mirror on my blog: 
<http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/74-Gory-details.html>. 
Of course, we might also find some other brokenness if we try to import 
all the tags. Also, be aware of this (from 
<http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html>):
   Differences between CVS and git branch/tag models: CVS allows a   branch or tag to be created from arbitrary
combinationsof source   revisions from multiple source branches. It even allows file   revisions that were never
contemporaneousto be added to a single   branch/tag. Git, on the other hand, only allows the full source   tree, as it
existedat some instant in the history, to be branched   or tagged as a unit. Moreover, the ancestry of a git revision
makes  implications about the contents of that revision. This difference   means that it is fundamentally impossible to
representan arbitrary   CVS history in a git repository 100% faithfully. 
 


cheers

andrew