Migrating CVS repositories to Bazaar

[Adrian]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>

> file ids for the same file was different on different
> branches unless the file was added before the branched split.
> That makes diffs between converted branches difficult to use.
>
> It's too late to fix it now for our repository, and I don't know if it
> was an pilot error on our side (sounds unlikely, since two guys spent
> a lot of time (like more than a year) fine-tuning the cvs->bzr
> conversion, while waiting for Bzr to become not untolerably slow),
> and/or if it's been fixed since, but just wanted to let people know.
>

It's certainly something that bzr supports through it's UI - the ability to add
files using an ID from another branch - so it's something that should
be possible
to implement.