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Cleanup warning about known issues in cvsimport documentation
Not all statements were complete sentences. Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Problems related to timestamps:
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* If timestamps of commits in the cvs repository are not stable enough
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to be used for ordering commits
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to be used for ordering commits changes may show up in the wrong
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order.
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* If any files were ever "cvs import"ed more than once (e.g., import of
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more than one vendor release)
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more than one vendor release) the HEAD contains the wrong content.
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* If the timestamp order of different files cross the revision order
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within the commit matching time window
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within the commit matching time window the order of commits may be
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wrong.
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Problems related to branches:
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* Branches on which no commits have been made are not imported
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* Branches on which no commits have been made are not imported.
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* All files from the branching point are added to a branch even if
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never added in cvs
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* files added to the source branch *after* a daughter branch was
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created: If previously no commit was made on the daugther branch they
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will erroneously be added to the daughter branch in git
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never added in cvs.
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* This applies to files added to the source branch *after* a daughter
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branch was created: if previously no commit was made on the daughter
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branch they will erroneously be added to the daughter branch in git.
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Problems related to tags:
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* Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported
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* Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
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If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
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want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be

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