hg-cvs-import and new branch style

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:08:40PM +0000, Edouard Gomez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For personnal needs i'm moving a lot of CVS modules to Mercurial. After
> some tries, i decided to use hg-cvs-import because it supports branches.
> 
> I enhanced the script a bit and plan to send a patch queue for upstream
> merging.
> 
> But now i'm can't because the script doesn't work anymore since Matt
> removed old style branch support. I'm now trying to update the branch
> handling code.
> 
> I have a few questions about this new branch style:
>  - why rawcommit doesn't expose extra param ?

Forgot to add it.

>  - the branchcache isn't updated when commiting, this has the side effect
>    that the cache isn't coherent. At the moment i do
>    repo.branchcache = None
>    but it's nasty... is there a better way ?

Not yet, we ought to fix that.

>  - when do i need to set the extra = {'branch': branchname}, at each
>    commit or just when switching branches ? My experiments seems to prove
>    that if i don't do at each commit, even if i invalidate the cache,
>    branch tracking gets lost.

Branch names are currently completely ignored by rawcommit. So every
commit right now.

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