Re: Report: removing the inconsistencies in our CVS->git conversion

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 21:28, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>>     return bool(re.match(
>>         r'file .* was added on branch .* on '
>>         r'\d{4}\-\d{2}\-\d{2} \d{2}\:\d{2}\:\d{2}( [\+\-]\d{4})?'
>>         '\n$',
>>         log_msg,
>>         ))
>
>> So it looks like I have to make the dead revisions' log messages match
>> that regexp.  Off to make another try.
>
> It works!  Now I don't see either the manufactured commits or the
> patched-in deletions.
>
> I had not previously bothered to patch the places where a file was added
> on the branch immediately after being added on the main, but now it
> seems worth doing.  That will get us down to a *very* small number of
> manufactured commits in the final version.

That's awesome!

Thanks so much for doing this. I've come to realize I know far too
little about *cvs* to work on those things myself :S

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