Re: cvs2git reports a "sprout" from a nonexistent commit?

On 09/13/2010 03:14 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> [...]
>
> Now as far as I can tell, the branch was made immediately before those
> test commits you can see Marc making in each branch.  In particular,
> it was definitely made *after* Bryan deleted the src/bin/monitor files,
> because neither of them have REL2_0 or REL2_0B tags.  So why did cvs2git
> choose to sprout the branch from the commit before that, and have to
> duplicate the deletion of the files?

This is a known bug 139 [1] in cvs2git's symbol parent choosing code 
(previously mentioned as part of bug 55 [2]).  Patches are welcome :-)

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=139
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55