Ticket #104 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

On import of the cvs tree into darcs, the tags appear to have the wrong date/time

Reported by: lele Owned by: lele
Priority: minor Milestone: VersionOne
Component: cvs Version: 0.9
Keywords: Cc:

Description

On import of the cvs tree into darcs, the tags appear to have the wrong date/time and lose the metadata on the committer (who is listed as "Unknown tagger."). Specifically, rather than having the date-time correctly set as the rest of the patches from that tree do, the tags have the current date/time in darcs.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by Aaron

By what criteria do they have the "wrong" date and time? Tags in CVS don't have a timestamp, nor a committer. A CVS tag is just a list of file revisions, each with its own timestamp and committer.

I suppose you could make a case for looking at the timestamps of all the revisions and using the latest one as the time of the tag. (I'm pretty sure I considered this at the time I wrote the code, but I ended up not implementing it; I don't remember if it turned out to be hard to do, or if I realized it was a bad idea for some reason...) But is it really worth it, given that whatever date we use will be bogus anyway?

comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by lele

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

As Aaron said, there isn't any clear way to determine the timestamp of CVS tag.

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