From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18664 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2011 01:38:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 18655 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Apr 2011 01:38:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:38:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4197B2BB273; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id sBDi8DktYWc1; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF392BB26D; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:38:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1AAA01459B0; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:38:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:38:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Andreas Schwab Cc: Jim Meyering , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey Subject: Re: gdb_7_3-branch not buildable? Message-ID: <20110417013834.GB2388@adacore.com> References: <878vvbkv3r.fsf@rho.meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00259.txt.bz2 > git-cvsimport can easily be confused by a branch that is created from a > point back in time. That's a fundamental restriction of cvsps, because > it only tells you about the revision of files that changed on the > branch, but you never know the revision of the files that are unchanged. > To fix that you have to manually reset the branch to the true > branchpoint. See for a more precise rendition of > the src repository. How about we just delete the 7.3 branch, and recreated from the current sources? The fact that I made a mistake on the date as well as the fact that back-dated branchpoints confuse git are two arguments in favor of starting over... -- Joel