Emacs Fastimport Issues

[Max Bowsher]

Jason Earl wrote:
> Max Bowsher writes:
>> Jason Earl wrote:
>>> I have some problems with the fastimport of the Emacs git repository
>>> that I could really use some help resolving.
>>>
>>> The problems stem from my desire to sort out some of the issues
>>> outlined in this document:
>>>
>>> http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/emacs-bzr-switchover/sanity-checks.txt
>>>
>>> In particular I have been working on:
>>>
>>> * Check that all tags are present.  [FAIL?]
>>>
>>> As the document points out it appears that some tags go missing in
>>> the conversion.

I have a hunch what's happening here, and have pushed a potential fix to
lp:~maxb/bzr-fastimport/tag-on-fi-commit-to-tag-ref .

>> If I were to take it into my head to try running a test conversion of
>> emacs myself, just how much time would it take, and where would I get
>> the source repository snapshot?
> 
> A conversion would probably take less than 8 hours.  I've stopped timing
> them now that they don't take over 24 hours.

Eek. Well I'm leaving it running whilst I sleep and we'll see what happens.

Max.

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