[darcs-users] Re: Re: Fixing a repo with duplicate patches
Benjamin Franksen
benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Thu Dec 7 22:29:31 UTC 2006
David Roundy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:31:27AM +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
>> In case this will ever happen to anyone (not me, please), I think the
>> following procedure would fix the problem: stop the conversion right
>> after the first of the two supposedly identical patches is converted;
>> then manually add the other patch with a slightly differing time stamp;
>> then resume conversion from this point onward. Correct?
>
> That would be a possibility, but with CVS, at least, this scenario
> shouldn't be possible, since CVS doesn't have changesets, so if there are
> two commits with the same name and time they should be considered a single
> commit.
Should, yes, and AFAIK cvsps (and thus cvs2darcs) does exactly that. Tailor
seems to be a bit more simple-minded, maybe it needs fixing.
Ben
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