Branch and tag deletions

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> > My current test conversion run is testing two changes: deleting 
> > emptycommit tags, and using --user-ignores to prefer the .gitignore file 
> > in SVN over one auto-generated from svn:ignore properties.  For the next 
> > one after that I'll try eliminating all branch/tag removals that shouldn't 
> > be doing anything, based on the current sets of branches and tags in SVN, 
> > and report bugs if I see anything appearing in the converted repository 
> > that shouldn't be.
> 
> I'm more worried about missing files. I saw a bunch of those on my
> last test.  This could be spurious - the elaborate set of branch
> mappings you specified confuses my validation test, because there is
> no longer a 1-1 corresponsence between Subversion and git branches.

I'm hoping any such missing file problems come from bugs in the old SVN 
dump reader with complicated commits mixing copies / deletions / 
replacements with copies from other locations and that your rewrite will 
fix the semantics in such cases.

All the current gcc-conversion merge requests, both mine and Richard's, 
should now be set to allow rebasing.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com