Re: Remote cvs2svn

I'll strongly second Daniel's points here. cvs2svn was built entirely with
the idea of having the ,v files available for reading.

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > In looking at cvs2svn, it appears to only work on CVS repositories
> > that you have a copy of.
> >
> > For projects that it's not easy to get hold of to CVS repository,
> > it would be useful to have cvs2svn work on remote repositories
> > (i.e. via :pserver:).
> >
> > How easy/hard would this be?
>
> Impossible.
> Well, I guess it's not technically impossible, but it would be slower than
> molasses and hard on the server.

No, actually I believe it *is* technically impossible. IIRC, the "cvs log"
output does not fully detail the revision graph when branches are present.
It isn't always possible to determine the predecessor revision in certain
cases. And especially if somebody forces specific revision numbers -- you
can't just say "1.(rev-1)" to figure out the predecessor.

The ,v files, on the other hand, *do* contain all of the predecessor
information, so it can properly compute the branch graph for conversion.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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