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