From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16339 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2011 07:44:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 16327 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Apr 2011 07:44:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (HELO mail-out.m-online.net) (212.18.0.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:44:03 +0000 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E48A1824447; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:44:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544131C00103; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:44:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ro9LlJvpDKVa; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:43:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-123-18.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.123.18]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:43:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id A78CECA2A0; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:43:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Jim Meyering Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey Subject: Re: gdb_7_3-branch not buildable? References: <878vvbkv3r.fsf@rho.meyering.net> X-Yow: I think my CAREER is RUINED!! Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:44:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <878vvbkv3r.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:28:24 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00235.txt.bz2 Jim Meyering writes: > That's many more differences than I expected, > so maybe something is going wrong with the mirroring > mechanism (note that git's top-level ChangeLog has four > commits from april 4 that are not in git-cvs's ChangeLog file). 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."