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DateThu, 10 Feb 2005 10:52:19 +0100 (CET)
FromRoman Zippel <>
SubjectRe: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto
Hi,

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote:

> This problem is nowhere near as hard as you are making it out to be
> but it is hard.  But it's not that bad, we do this every time we do
> a CVS import, we have to intuit the changeset boundaries themselves,
> which is actually harder than what you are trying to do.  Think about
> taking revision history without any changeset grouping and recreating
> the changesets (aka patches).  We do that all the time, automatically.
> If we can do that then you can do this.

That's simply not true and you know that.
I repeat, the bkweb information is not enough to recreate the history, 
incomplete data will only produce incomplete results no matter how hard 
you try and I delivered the _proof_ for that.

bye, Roman
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