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This page tracks requests for actions from the vcs-imports operator.

To request an import, please:

Note that we only do imports of MAIN branches on CVS (the form will have to be updated to remove the "branch" field) and trunk branches on Subversion.

We will handle your request and keep you informed of progress or issues. You can contact the vcs-imports operator: ddaa in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net.

Template to request an import:


Open requests

Imports that need intervention from the vcs-imports operator.

In progress

Imports being processed.

Better REPLACE support

Imports that have failed and that need better support for replaced files.

Initial revision is a move

[https://launchpad.net/bugs/58029 Bug 58029].

It appears that when a svn branch is created by a move (copy + delete), the initial imported revision is empty, which causes a failure on the first revision that tries to modify a pre-existing file.

In the case of the katapult import (svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/utils/katapult), the branch is created at revision 521764 by moving from /trunk/playground/utils/katapult:521763. The initial revision of the bzr import is an empty tree.

Illegal file name

Unknown failures

lifeless suggests:

(15:28:25) lifeless: I'd do a search in the file revision table for that file, all revisions, see what cscvs is thinking happened to it
(15:29:45) ddaa: you suggest it might be a problem in the log parser and checking the catalog contents would help narrowing the cause of the problem?
(15:33:11) lifeless: something is inventing the .2
(15:33:22) lifeless: if its in the catalog then the catalog generator can be checked
(15:33:42) lifeless: if its not in the catalog then the application-of-changesets can be checked
(15:33:45) lifeless: it will narrow it down
(15:34:03) lifeless: As its a very small rlog I'd make a test case from it

Relevant fragment of the cvs log:

$ cvs rlog epiphany/data\/ui/epiphany-toolbar.xml.in

RCS file: /cvs/gnome/epiphany/data/ui/Attic/epiphany-toolbar.xml.in,v
head: 1.17
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
[...]
        eog-menu-api: 1.1.0.2
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 19;    selected revisions: 19
description:
----------------------------
[...]
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 2003/01/20 18:57:15;  author: mpeseng;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -0
2003-01-20  Marco Pesenti Gritti  <marco@it.gnome.org>

        * Merge eog-menu-api branch
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2003/01/20 17:53:25;  author: mpeseng;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file epiphany-toolbar.xml.in was initially added on branch eog-menu-api.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
date: 2003/01/20 17:53:25;  author: mpeseng;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -0
implement context menus
----------------------------
[...]

Partial copy

Current cscvs in production does not correctly handle revisions that combine a copy (that is 'A' or 'R' action with copyfrom set) with a simultaneous delete ('D' or 'R' action) in a path below the copy.

A new changeset generation logic that fixes this issue has been implemented and is currently undergoing review. When the code review and fixage has been completed, those import will be re-run and are expected to succeed.

Imports that failed to do REPORT on a path with a bang. I do not know what that means, but there's clearly a pattern.

Failed to fork, memory error

Some large imports fail to os.fork() (when spawning gpg to sign a revision) with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory". It's not clear why that happen, since Linux should overcommit memory up to 50x (the value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio) and allow large processes like cscvs to spawn small processes like gpg.