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[Ulrich Spörlein]

Am Sa., 3. Aug. 2019 um 13:44 Uhr schrieb Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org>:
>
> On 3 Aug 2019, at 12:00, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> ...
> > And to be honest, the cvs2svn conversion turned so much of the old history
> > into garbage, that we should either fix
> > them (impossible?)
>
> Is there still an archive of the CVS repository itself just before the
> conversion to Subversion?  Maybe that could be imported directly in to
> Git, and then graft on the Subversion history from there?
>
> -Dimitry
>

It does exist somewhere on hub or freedall (I have a backup as well),
but due to the repo-copies that were done, a simple import into git is
likely not going to work well either. I used "fromcvs"  back in the
day and that produced pretty good results for the first couple of
years, but it likely requires a lot of handholding and special casing.
Blacklisting all repo-copied files till up to a certain date and
verifying that history from cvs2mail should get us there.

It would be pretty cool if some folks would collaborate on that, it
would help out https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo as
well.

Cheers,
Uli