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Tags missing after conversion from CVS

Asked by Andrew Johnson

I'm experimenting with converting an old and fairly large (56MB) CVS repository into a Bazaar repo. When I run 'bzr tags' in a working directory of one of the branches, the output is missing many of the tag names that should have been defined on that branch. When I run 'bzr tags' on the trunk, I get no tags listed at all.

I built and installed bzr-2.0.1, the fastimport plugin, and cvs2svn-2.3.0 (all built from source), on a linux-x86 (Fedora 10) system, created a suitable cvs2bzr.options file, ran 'cvs2bzr --options cvs2bzr.options' to generate the base.fi file and used 'bzr fast-import base.fi base.bzr' to convert that into a new repo. I then used 'bzr checkout' in one of the branch subdirectories to instantiate a working copy of that branch.

There are several long-lived branches in the CVS repository, and each one has many release tags on it. The branch that I checked out should have had about 17 tags on it, but 'bzr tags' only shows 12, omitting the latest 2 and some of the oldest ones near the branch point (but it does show the tag at the branch point). All 17 tags appear in the symbol-info.txt file that cvs2bzr generated, which shows them correctly assigned to this branch. 'bzr tags' in the trunk directory generates no output at all, although there should be 83 tags on the trunk itself.

I'm completely new to Bazaar, so I'm hoping that I did something wrong, can anyone help?

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Andrew Johnson (anj) said : 		#1

I found the "missing" tags in the branch called TAG.FIXUP, which appears to contain tags that I was expecting to find both on the trunk and on some other branches. That matches a grep in the cvs2svn code, so I guess this isn't a Bazaar issue as such.