Re: SVN conversion glitch?

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 14:53 -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> > There seem to be more conversion glichtes. I retrieved gcc-2_95-branch
> > from the svn repository and diffed it with my CVS checkout. The diff
> > contained lots of differences.
> > Many files had different CVS $Id strings.
> 
> > I was told that this is harmless but what is the reason for this  
> > difference?
> 
> Some (all?) of these were probably caused by changing the cvs repo  
> pre-svn switchover.  In cvs these things are not version controlled,  
> and `fixing' them caused newly fetched files to then be different  
> then those same exact files fetched in the past (before they were  
> `fixed') even thoughy one fetches the same exact version.  The only  
> solution is to never check in a file without -ko in cvs in the first  
> place.  svn improves upon this by having substitutions all off in the  
> first place.
> 
> You can see if this is the case by refetching from cvs and then  
> comparing to svn.

Well, he was fetching by date, which makes it worse, since as i said,
commit grouping will cause revision by date to not match up with CVS.

tags, etc (IE things with very explicit versions of all the files
involved) should match up.