Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: add support for new style remote layout

From: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
Date: Jun 6, 2007, 11:52 UTC
Message-ID: <1181130744.3661.7.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3a477a76f6c5396feee452678fb8110c@pinky>

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 01:56 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

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> cvsimport creates any branches found in the remote CVS repository
> in the refs/heads namespace.  This makes sense for a repository
> conversion.  When using git as a sane interface to a remote CVS
> repository, that repository may well remain as the 'master'
> respository.  In this model it makes sense to import the CVS
> repository into the refs/remotes namespace.
> 
> Add a new option '-r <remote>' to set the remote name for
> this import.  When this option is specified branches are named
> refs/remotes/<remote>/branch, with HEAD named as master matching
> git-clone separate remotes layout.  Without branches are placed
> ion refs/heads, with HEAD named origin as before.

I've run over 5GB of cvs imports through git-cvsimport with this patch and it's worked very well for me...

Jeff