Re: Problem with git-cvsimport

From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <170fa0d20710301415w40305533o8332419e3b05ece3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <170fa0d20710301306o6b3798f9k72615eb811d871f2@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/30/07, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 10/10/07, Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git-list@orakel.ntnu.no> wrote:
> ...
> >
> > Thanks for making cvs2svn the best CVS-to-git conversion tool :)  Now
> > if it would only support incremental importing...
>
> Michael,
>
> I second this question: is there any chance incremental importing will
> be implemented in cvs2svn?
>
> I've not used cvs2svn much and when I did it was for svn not git; but
> given that git-cvsimport is known to mess up your git repo (as Eyvind
> pointed out earlier) there doesn't appear to be any reliable tools to
> allow for incrementally importing from cvs to git.
>
> Are others using a tool for reliably importing from cvs to git?

After reading the fairly recent "cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation" thread it is clear that its doable but hasn't been done (seeing as you were looking for volunteers to do it).

Sorry for the noise, Mike